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 ...

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This time last year, I was in northern Wales, waiting in line to see the peak of flowering on the laburnum trees. This year those gardens will have no such line. Still, they will bloom, with or ...

The laburnum tree is famous for its cascading golden flowers — but beneath that beauty lies potent toxicity. Every part of the plant contains poisonous compounds, especially the seeds. Ingesting even ...

The laburnum tree is famous for its cascading golden flowers in spring, but in winter it loses those obvious signs. What remains are bare branches and seed pods — and the same toxic compounds. Every ...