

Where symptoms do occur these are usually nausea and vomiting. In many cases of ingestion of a small number of seeds, there are no symptoms. The harmful part of the plant is the seedpods.
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Cultural Conditions: Light: Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day) Partial Shade (Direct sunlight only part of the day, 2-6 hours) Soil Texture: Clay Loam (Silt) Sand Available Space To Plant: 12-24 feet 24-60 feet USDA Plant Hardiness Zone: 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b.Whole Plant Traits: Plant Type: Poisonous Tree Woody Plant Leaf Characteristics: Deciduous Habit/Form: Erect Open Growth Rate: Slow Maintenance: High Texture: Fine.Attributes: Genus: Laburnum Species: anagyroides Family: Fabaceae Life Cycle: Woody Country Or Region Of Origin: Central & South East Europe Dimensions: Height: 12 ft.Tags: #gold #showy flowers #deciduous #small tree #poisonous #yellow flowers #weedy #high maintenance #messy #large flowers See this plant in the following landscape: Cultivars / Varieties: Its leaves alternate, long-stalked with 3 leaflets flowers pea-like, golden, in long drooping clusters fruit a long, flattened pod, sparsely branched loses lower branches. However, some wild animals such as hares and deer can feed on them without any problems, and because of this, the plant is believed to have magic properties in some regions.Īll parts of the plant contain cytisine and are poisonous if consumed. The seeds are legumes with large numbers of black seeds that contain cytisine, an alkaloid extremely poisonous to humans as well as goats and horses, especially when not ripe.

The flowers are golden yellow, sweet-scented, and typically bloom in May. Laburnum anagyroides blooms in late spring with pea-like, yellow flowers densely packed in pendulous racemes 4–10 in long. The leaves are generally trifoliate and oval with long petioles, smooth on the upper side and hairy on the underside. It has smooth bark, dark green spreading branches and pendulous and pubescent twigs. The plant is a small deciduous tree or large shrub up to 30 ft tall. Phonetic Spelling la-BURN-um an-ah-gy-ROY-deez This plant has high severity poison characteristics.
