Name this tree!

lostinrates

Only five years old? You've given me great hope and excitement now.....

Gingernutty

I_have_spoken wrote: »

There's a spaghetti tree in my Waitrose carpark.

Davesnave wrote: »

I think you are too young to remember the BBC spoof.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti-tree_hoax

You must be referring to the restaurant chain.

I_have_spoken wrote: »

I can't claim to have seen the original broadcast.

Television only came to Scotland in the 1980s...

BY THE POWERS OF GOOGLE!!

PS. Love the tree OP.

I_have_spoken

You've made Logie-Baird spin in his grave.....

Doubly so as I attended the same school as him

Soil_sister_1

Name this tree!

What about Simon?

lisa110rry

I grew up in the US where this tree is common, I believe the beans are poisonous?

lostinrates

So, I went and checked mine and it has been in flower, just the flowers have been well concealed by the leaves! Thank you for drawing my attention to it peachy price, I'm so excited!

For what its worth, you can get bean trees in a golden hue I believe, and a dark leave, but IMO the green are the best. But there are more than one type certainly, so if anyone is inspired it might be worth some research instead of just going for the nearest or most available catulpa.

missbiggles1

lisa110rry wrote: »

I grew up in the US where this tree is common, I believe the beans are poisonous?

They're certainly inedible and useless for anything as well as messy. We have 2 and cut them back each year or they'd be enormous.

peachyprice

lisa110rry wrote: »

I grew up in the US where this tree is common, I believe the beans are poisonous?

Just as well it's in a cemetery