Cochlospermum sp.
This tree blooms in the dry season in Panama – mature trees along the Interamericana highway near David are spectacular. This one is a young thing and even so the flowers are high up and I could zoom no closer.
Locally called Poroporo.
[...] Tithonia, in many more places this year than last year; and the spectacular buttercup tree, Cochlospermum, is beginning to show in some places. But in our savanna, right now, the showy yellow tree is a [...]