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.
--
purebred poultry
www.geocities.com/fenlandfowl

On 17/6/05 10:58 pm, in article ,
"pammyT" fenlandfowl @talktalk.net wrote:


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.

Possibly Cercis siquiliastrum, the Judas tree?
http://tinyurl.com/bx8po
--

Sacha
(remove the weeds for email)

"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 17/6/05 10:58 pm, in article
,
"pammyT" fenlandfowl @talktalk.net wrote:


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.

Possibly Cercis siquiliastrum, the Judas tree?
http://tinyurl.com/bx8po
I'll email him the link and ask him. Thanks.

In article , Sacha
writes
On 17/6/05 10:58 pm, in article ,
"pammyT" fenlandfowl @talktalk.net wrote:


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.

Possibly Cercis siquiliastrum, the Judas tree?
http://tinyurl.com/bx8po

notable feature of that is that the flowers grow straight out of the
trunks

--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

pammyT fenlandfowl @talktalk.net wrote in message
...

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.
--
purebred poultry
www.geocities.com/fenlandfowl


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

In message , Spider
writes
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.

+Laburnocytisus is more likely (touch formica) to give a positive
result.

30 feet is on the large size of Laburnum anagyroides (Stace says 25
feet), but there's probably room for error in the estimate here, and
Laburnum alpinum is bigger. So, it's unlikely that one would find a
+Laburnocytisus of this size, especially in a wood.

My first thought was Rose Acacia, Robinia hispida, but that's much
smaller. Cercis, already mentioned, is the other purple-flowered legume
in Mitchell, but its leaves are nothing like plum-like. (I wondering if
it's leaflets of a pinnate or ternate leaved legume that are
individually like the leaves of a plum.)
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

On 18/6/05 1:02 pm, in article ,
"Spider" wrote:


pammyT fenlandfowl @talktalk.net wrote in message
...

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.
--
purebred poultry
www.geocities.com/fenlandfowl


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.


I've just been out to have a look at our Laburnocytisus's and can't see any
resemblance between their leaves and those of plum trees, I must admit!
Other than being green, that is!
--

Sacha
(remove the weeds for email)