Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Golden rain-tree, Koelreuteria paniculata, grows 30 to 40 feet tall with an ...
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Among the most brilliant of flowering trees are those in the Fabaceae, or legume, family of plants. Imagine, for example, a tree with long golden chains of five-petaled flowers, so profuse that they ...