pammyT fenlandfowl @talktalk.net wrote in message
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No pictures I'm afraid.
My little brother lives in the Dordogne. In his wood, he found a tree
approx 30 feet high with laburnum shaped flowers but they are pink mauve.
Now it has finished flowering it has black lupin like seed pods. The
leaves
are not like laburnum apparently but more like a plum tree according to my
sister in law. My brother is going to send me one of the pods to try to
grow
here.
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Hi Pammy,

There is a bi-generic cross called x-laburnocytisus (sp?). I believe there
is a pink flowering form arising from the cytisus relative. However, I
would have expected the leaves to remain close to those expected of the
Leguminacae family. Also, I would be doubtful of successful flowering in
woodland conditions, from these two sun-loving genera.

Try a google on x-laburnocytisys. In the meantime, I will keep my thinking
cap on.

Spider