Description
Laburnum – Golden Chain Tree –
There are 2 species of deciduous tree in this genus. They occur from woodland and thickets in the mountains of Central and Southern Europe and Western Asia. They are grown for their profuse, pendent, usually axillary racemes of pea like flowers, borne in late spring and early summer. Flowers are followed by brown seed pods. The leaves are alternate and 3 palmate. Useful in a small garden as specimen trees or to form a pergola. All parts are highly toxic if ingested.
Grow in moderately fertile, well drained soil in full sun.
Prone to leaf spot, canker, twig blight, tip dieback, aphids, mealy bugs, leaf miners insects, and snails.
L. anagyroides ‘Erect’ – L. vulgare – Common Laburnum – Golden Rain – With stiffly ascending branches this tree grows 25′ feet tall. It produces hairy, gray green young shoots, and dark green leaves composed of 3 elliptic-obovate leaflets, to 3″ long, downy beneath. In late spring and early summer it bears bright yellow flowers in dense racemes, 4-12″ long followed by hairy brown pods.
Zones 6-8
