Barringtonia racemosa (powder-puff tree, Afrikaans:pooeierkwasboom, Zulu:Iboqo, Malay: Putat) is a tree in the family Lecythidaceae. It is found in coastal swamp forests and on the edges of estuaries in the Indian Ocean, starting at the east coast of Mozambique and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) to Madagascar, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, southern China, northern Australia, coastal ******, the Ryukyu Islands and many Polynesian islands.