Myroxylon occurs as genus of 2 metal money of South American trees in the Fabaceae (Leguminosae), famous for the "Balsam of Peru".

It is little trees growing to Dozen m tall, sustaining evergreen pinnate leaves 1Five cm long using 5-13 leaflets. A flowers are whiten by using yellow stamens, produced around racemes. A fruit is a pod 7-11 cm long, containing one seed.

Image:Koeh-141.jpg|Myroxylon balsamum from either Koehler's Medicinal-Plants (1887)