The Ciricote, Cordia dodecandra, is found in every Yucatan village and along many city streets not only because its reddish-orange flowers are so pretty, but also because it's native to the Yucatan. In northern Yucatan you find it just as prettily flowering out in the scrubby woods as along Mérida's Paseo de Montejo, shown above. However, Ciricote isn't as common in the wild as it used to be because its colorful wood is highly regarded for use as furniture wood, plus it's known to hold up under wet conditions.
Ciricotes are distributed from southern Mexico into Belize and Guatemala. A similar and closely related tree, in English sometimes Geiger-Tree, Cordia sebestena, has flowers with only 5-8 corolla lobes, as opposed to the Ciricote's 12-16.