Clare the little cutting you sent me last spring is now over 4 1/2 feet tall,is this a spring bloomer there in California?
Cassia
Don, this one was grown from seed, probably started in Feb. or March and it reached about 8-9 ft by frost. One of my favorite plants but hard to find seed.
Here is one grown in a pot. Not as tall, but still about five foot.
LOL!!!!
I'll bet your eyes are green tooo!!!!
Can't yours seed with all those flowers?
They never flower until just before frost and there isn't time for them to set seed. I had one little pod set on a couple of years ago, but that was it. Took the plant to our florist to see if we could keep it going and she had the chance to sell it, so I told her to go ahead. You might have just enough time to get the job done in KS.
Just might,but not too much difference in just one zone.
I say that,not thinking about all the snow there in Illinois and Indiana!!!LOL!
They flower in fall here too, plus one kind that makes a tree is flowering now. It has smaller crayon yellow flowers and is pretty.
cala,how tall do they get?
Probably 15 ft, maybe 20. I'm terrible at guessing how tall something is. I'm going to an older section of Brownsville today, there should be some there and if I can get a picture I will. It's not always easy to find a place to park without getting run over.
Thanks Cala,
Just wear something colorful and sexy,I quarrantee,no one will run over you then!!LOL!
Actually I wore a cable knit sweater and I'm about to burn up! I thought it was going to be cold and it's 80! Here is a picture we took at a house we were appraising. This is not a big tree, but it's the one I see flowering and gets quite tall.
Thanks so much,was wondering if they looked like a forsythia in the springtime blooming.
Brugie, yours looks like mine, (picture below) which I believe is Cassia (or Senna) alata. It's around 12 feet tall, or was before it froze.
Don and Cala's looks like one of the other species... anyone ever seen the pink one btw?
If anyone wants seedlings (of alata), please let me know so I can spare some when they start coming up in a few months lol, they're like weeds here.
Thanks I'll take you up on your offer,I grew one a few years back, flowered right before Halloween,and Icestorm got it the next day!!!
You have had a freeze?
I saw Houston was 35* this morning.
Yes, sadly it has frozen. It actually snowed (real snow, not just sleet) this evening for around 40 minutes (first time since 1985), but it all melted except for some that's still on cars and leaves, maybe 1/4 of an inch or so. It's been in the upper 20's a few times the last few days, but none of my covered plants have died back very much that I can tell... hopefully that will remain true since tonight is supposed to be the coldest.
As for the seedlings, I'll let you know when they start coming up, usually it's in March.
Don, it looks great! I had to get rid of my seedlings because I just didn't have room for them anymore. The one I sent you is called Cassia leptophylla, Gold Medallion Tree: http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/51550/ I picked the seedpod off of a tree and started a bunch from seed. You have a seedling, not a cutting. The pods are sweet smelling and smell like honey. They can get to be 25 to 50 feet, and I believe they flower in the spring.
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Thanks Clare real pretty,can't wait until it blooms.
Cassia Alata Seeds for SASE
E-mail me here for my address if you want them. I've got lots and lots of these seeds. They are a spectacular plant!
If you are up north, plant in the next couple of months inside in a pot and transfer outside when it warms up. They bloom here in August through first hard frost.
I grow these cassias and red castor beans to provide some shade for my gingers and brugs.
Kay
Don, I can't wait until you get blooms also! Kay, that picuture is gorgeous.
Here's a particularly nice set of images of the Gold Medallion tree (Cassia leptophylla).
By the way, I believe that there are at least three different varieties of this tree in cultivation.
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~vam/treeimages/CassiaLeptophylla.jpg
-Ron-
Nice pics Ron,thanks for posting them.
Gorgeous pictures! I grow the cassia bisapsularis also. It really is quite a showy one. It usually freezes before it finishes blooming here.
I used to have another kind that had much smaller leaves and flowers. Although I had a friend who had a very beautiful one, mine never did really seem to get started good.
Beautiful pictures!
Very pretty,too bad they don't have a fragrance.