Laburnum is poisonous, but the baked-in finish should stop any worries about that 😁.....and its just so beautiful to look at. Hand gives some idea of scale.

Laburnum , seen in my garden.

Gouden regen.

Golden chain tree.

Golden shower tree.

Laburnum alpinum,

Gran Sasso, Parco nazionale del Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga, Abruzzo, Italia

Atherton Laburnum Rovers went with a generic programme cover for the 1995-96 Northern Premier League season. It features what appears to be action from a friendly with Bolton Wanderers. Rovers issued this 40-pager (70p) for an October 1995 visit to Crilly Park by First Division rivals Fleetwood Town. The hosts won 1-0 (how times for these clubs have changed!) in front of 135 spectators.

The Laburnum Arch at Bodnant Gardens.

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A bunch of the flowers of Amaltas or the Indian Laburnum (Cassia fistula) from my sister's compund in Trivandrum. Known locally as Konna or Kanikonna, this flower is the harbinger of the Kerala New Year, Vishu. All Malayalees have very nostalgic memories of this beautiful flower which is also very auspicious.

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Laburnum Avenue, I-95 Richmond Bridge Restorations (Photo by Tom Saunders, VDOT)

Laburnum (Laburnum anagyroides) 1.300 m alt. Mt Mottarone, Italy. July 2013

Apparently at its peak around this day. Rainy day, but that probably helped soften the lighting.

Regents Canal towpath near Haggerston Bridge, Hackney, London. A series of mosaics by Freeform Arts and Laburnum Primary School pupils in the 1980's. Sadly covered in graffiti, deserves to be restored to its former glory.

Fabacées (Papillonnacées)

Laburnum anagyroïdes, cytise, faux ébenier.

Arbrisseau 3 à 6 mètres à feuilles découpées en folioles elliptiques, fleurs jaunes en grappes latérales pendantes.

Surtout présent dans les zones calcaires de l'est de la France, naturalisé dans l'Ouest.

Floraison mai/juin.

Photo prise en mai 2012 à Spay (Sarthe).

The laburnum arch at Ness Gardens.

Cytise aubour - Common laburnum - Lluvia de oro

Laburnum anagyroides Medik. (port)

Pelouse calcaire (alt. 180 m)

Dinant (province de Namur, Wallonie, Belgique)

Néophyte (Centre de l'Europe)

Laburnum × watereri, you can see the family resemblance to Wisteria (Pea family)

Fabaceae (pea, or legume family) » Cassia fistula L.

KASS-ee-uh -- from an ancient Greek name kasia used by Dioscorides ... Dave's Botanary

FIST-yoo-luh -- hollow (tube-like) ... Dave's Botanary

commonly known as: golden shower, Indian laburnum, purging cassia • Arabic: خيار چنبر khiyar-shanbar • Assamese: কৰ্ণিকাৰ kornikar, ৰাজবৃক্ষ rajobrkhyo, সোণাৰু shonaru • Bengali: বাঁদরলাঠি bandaralathi, সোনালী sonali, সোনালু sonalu • Gujarati: ગરમાળો garmalo • Hindi: अमलतास amaltas, सियार की लाठी siyar-ki lathi • Kannada: ಕಕ್ಕೆಮರ kakkemara, ಕೊಂದೆ konde • Konkani: बाळो balo • Malayalam: കണിക്കൊന്ന kanikkonna, കൊന്ന konna • Manipuri: চহুঈ chahui • Marathi: अमलताश amaltash, बहावा bahava • Mizo: ngai-ngaw • Nepali: अमल्तास् amaltas, राजवृक्ष rajbrichhya • Oriya: ସୁନାରି sunari • Pali: इंदीवर indivara • Persian: خيار چنبر khiyar-shanbar • Punjabi: ਅਲੀਸ alis, ਅੰਬਲਤਾਸ ambaltas • Sanskrit: आरग्वध aragvadha, कर्णिकार karnikara • Tamil: சரக்கொன்றை cara-k-konrai, இதழி itali • Telugu: కోలపొన్న kola ponna, రేల rela, శంపాకము shampakmu • Tibetan: don ga • Urdu: املتاس amaltas

Distribution: widely naturalized / cultivated in tropics; possible origin tropical Asia

References: Flowers of India • NPGS / GRIN • Dave's Garden • Wikipedia

Like Forsythia, the flowers are almost fluorescent in colour - and it's been a good growing year for this tree just like it seemed to be for the forsythia last summer. This photo was taken looking up into the branches, so don't exactly show the formation of the 'chains' of flowers that hang down - hence it's common name of Golden Chain.

Laburnum has gained itself a bit of a fearsome reputation on account of it containing the poisonous substance cytosine - which is similar to nicotine, but not nearly as toxic.

There are plenty of other very common garden plants which we should be equally wary of ingestion, such as foxgloves, common ivy and even the gorgeous delphiniums which all contain toxic substances.

I think the only reason laburnum has been singled out is because their seedpods could possibly be mistaken for the pods of garden peas.

The Laburnum in the garden has a good crop of flowers this year

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Laburnum tree in my garden at home

My stash. Most of the Yew was from a friend and the Laburnum and 2 large pieces of Yew i got for €10.

this year i remembered to visit Kathy Brown's Garden early enough to catch the laburnum & wisteria arches

Laburnum Street Hackney London

Flat Cap Derby

Magnificently flowering laburnum in St. John's, Newfoundland