Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Cry baby tree, 1 by aprilwillis

aprilwillis wrote:
Ok it's called a cry baby tree I believe because it weeps; that is liquid drips from the flowers, although I have not noticed that so much w/ mine ( Cassia Alota (Allota ?) is worse)- there are several cultivars and several colors, the red is the most dramatic. I don't know about you rylaff but I never feel that my camera captures the intensity of the red! It also comes in a pink and possibly white? (not certain of that). I have 2, one is a cross and it doesn't seem to care about anything, just blooms like crazy. The other, which is the native has not bloomed yet, planted both last year and they were about the same size. If any of you ever get to "The Enchanted Forest" in Richmond, TX they have a huge one out front that is not to be believed. They form multi trunk trees, but Enchanted Forest pruned it to a beautiful single trunk specimen!. I made a cutting for my daughter of the one that blooms so readily and she has just left it in the pot, it looks like a stick in dirt, but it's blooming! This is a photo of mine.
April