![]() We recommend using it in an informal way, with groundcover plants established underneath it. This tree is disease and pest free and when planted in the right location requires very little extra upkeep. Give it room to grow into it's mature spread, or width. A medium-sized tree, it features an open-branched form that looks just like a cute, upside-down umbrella once mature. This is an excellent shade tree, known for its rounded crown and well-behaved root system. Even in winter, you'll enjoy the pleasing branch structure and attractive bark. The Golden Rain Tree has a lovely, Oriental look, with a broadly spreading canopy. They'll start off flushed with salmon pink-orange, and turn light pistachio green, then deepen into chocolate brown. You've probably watched Golden Rain Trees in your area develop showy, air-filled papery fruit capsules that look like tiny little Chinese Lanterns dangling from the branches in fall. Once it's established, it can grow 2 - 3 feet a year in certain parts of the country. This is a spunky, pretty tree that's always doing something ornamental in the landscape. The deep blue-green color also really helps those brilliant yellow flowers to pop! In fall, you'll be glad to know the leaves give a wonderful fall display of orange-yellow color. Our horticulture team calls it a pinnate of bipinnately compound leaves, but you'll appreciate their soft, feathery look. The leaves are made up of 7 to as many as 17 individual leaflets. You'll love watching the pinkish to bronze leaf buds emerge in spring to almost purple before opening to a bright green. Yellow is a rare color for flowering trees. Golden Rain Trees bloom late with a splashy display of intense yellow flowers, one of the few to show this color. Kids love the "Firecracker Tree" with it's 15-inch long panicles of lovely yellow blooms with red centers. And the heavenly fragrance is out of this world! ![]() Koelreuteria paniculata, 2014, Wikipedia, Koelreuteria paniculata, n.The amazing bright yellow flowers of the popular landscape tree, Golden Rain Tree (Koelreuteria paniculata) last for a month - or more - in summertime. Koelreuteria paniculata, 2012, Plants for a Future, Golden rain trees can be a source of yellow and black dye, and the seeds are sometimes used as a bead in jewellery making.Golden rain tree seeds and leaves can be eaten, roasted or cooked respectively, although they are not commonly consumed. ![]()
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