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Among the most brilliant of flowering trees are those in the Fabaceae, or legume, family of plants. Imagine, for example, a tree with long golden chains of five-petaled flowers, so profuse that they completely obscure the tree’s foliage. This species is appropriately named golden shower tree or laburnum of India and will remind you of true laburnum, the tree that is classically associated with long chains of yellow flowers.
Golden shower tree, however, is well-suited to our climate so it is a mystery why you seldom see it here. And there is another stunning leguminous tree in gold, also strangely absent from our gardens. It is called copperpod due to the color of its pods, while its overall form, foliage, and flowering season correspond to those of the jacaranda.
Before leaving leguminous trees with golden flowers, two others are worthy of special mention. One of them is gold medallion tree . In my neighborhood, its annual opulent summer display got me thinking about its Latin name. Upon investigation, I learned that Cassia is derived from ke’tzia, which was one of the 11 spices used in the incense mixture that, in ancient times, was burned twice a day in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. According to most opinions, ke’tzia had a cinnamon fragrance.
And now we come to mimosa , a legendary leguminous beauty. Mimosa is a tree that looks like it sounds. It possesses fine, bipinnate foliage and delicate pink shuttlecock flowers. Mimosa, with its susurrating final syllable, suggests a whispering softness and, on account of its downy, feathery flowers, one of its common names is silk tree.
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