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Laburnum alpinum
Also called Laburnum, Scottish Laburnum, Scotch Laburnum
Alpine laburnum is a fast-growing, deciduous leguminous tree from central and southern Europe, grown for its hanging clusters of fragrant yellow pea-like flowers in late spring. It is grown as an ornamental and is poisonous in all its parts.
Laburnum alpinum, the Scotch laburnum, Scottish laburnum or alpine laburnum, is a leguminous (Leguminosae) deciduous tree.
Laburnum alpinum is cultivated as an ornamental tree. Plants can be successfully transplanted even when quite large. The most common ornamental Laburnum plant is a hybrid of this species and Laburnum anagyroides, Laburnum × watereri.
The plant prefers well-drained, light (sandy), medium (loamy) soil but tolerates heavy clay and nutritionally poor soils. Preferring acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils, it can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or full sun.
It is native to Central and Southern Europe and has become naturalised in several parts of northern Britain. L. alpinium and L. anagyroides Medic. are both common as a garden escape in Northern Ireland.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Laburnum alpinum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
