Identify this tree/ bush

chocomonsta

Hi

can anyone give me an idea to what it might be?

It is a small tree or a large bush probably about 7-8ft tall has bright yellow flowers about 5" and smells divine..you can smell it before you see it and at the moment it has seeds next to the flowers and they look like bean/ pea pods.

heres hoping

thanks for looking

365days

Could be laburnum. The seeds are poisonous.

lizzyb1812

Your post reads like you are posting a photo but there isn't one!

It's really hard to identify a plant from a brief description - in this sort of case a picture really is worth a thousand words.

Lizzyb

LJM

from the sounds of it though i would agree with 365 days but it is difficult to tell without a piccie

gardenroute

Could be quite a few things. Laburnums aren't known for their fragrant flowers. It would have also flowered in the spring. The pea-like pods makes it sound like a legume (which the laburnum is). Yellow fragrant flowers in summer? Probably a cytisus - but really need a photo. Random guess - cytisus battandieri?

Money_maker

Another random guess is tulip tree but dunno about the pods bit. Need piccy!

peter_the_piper

My first thought is Genista Hispanica, Spanish broom.

westiea

Cytisus Battandieri? (Pineapple Broom) perhaps?

If the leaves are a 3 lobed and a soft silvery green then could be this.

chocomonsta

Hi

Thanks for all the replies.

Yes I ought to post a picture but I haven't taken one yet as I was cycling.

None of your suggestions are correct yet

Another clue the scent reminds me of expensive perfumed soap but again I have not a clue which one.

I will try and take a picture and post it soon

Thanks so far

emiff6

Tree lupin (lupinus arboreus)? You say the flower is 5 inches. Do you mean each individual flower, like a rose, or each stem of flowers, like a lilac?