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Tree ID please

ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
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Can you help?  I bought this as a teeny thing 2 years ago, no proper label but marked as a "bee bee" tree particularly attractive to bees.   I think it's big enough to plant out now but as I can't ID it I can't give it the best spot.


Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Plato

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  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited July 2020
    Cannot see an open flower to see detail.
    Appears to be Senna sp.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senna_(plant)
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Thanks for trying @Silver surfer.  I'll try for another photo with open flowers.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Hi @Silver surfer?  The RHS has confirmed it's a senna corymbosa which is a shrub from Uruguay but only hardy down to 5C.  However, mine survived a wet winter outdoors in a pot, admittedly crammed up against a west facing wall with all my other nursery pots, and a -5C for a few nights.   

    Rather than plant it out I shall grow it on in pots till it's too big to move and/or big enough to provide cuttings material, just in case.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    Excellent.
    Senna have over 300 sp. I could not have said which your was.
    The open flowers are very distinctive 
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
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