Keyed Out #063 — Laburnum anagyroides

Question 1

Each yellow flower is built of five unequal petals: one broad blade standing upright behind, two spreading at the sides, and two joined below into a boat that hides the {stamens}.

Accepted Answer

pea family

Question 2

The fruit is a single flattened pod of one chamber, its seeds all strung along one of the two seams, drying and splitting into two twisting halves.

Accepted Answer

Fabaceae

Question 3

The flowers hang straight down in long dense cylindrical chains from the tips of the current year's shoots, rather than sitting in small tufts in the leaf joints.

Accepted Answer

Laburnum

Question 4

Every leaf is cut into just three {leaflets} set at the top of a bare stalk almost as long as the blades, not into many pairs ranged along a common axis.

Accepted Answer

Laburnum

Question 5

Young twigs and the undersides of the leaflets stay clothed in short silvery hairs lying flat against the surface, so the crown reads grey-green well into summer.

Accepted Answer

Laburnum anagyroides

Question 6

The whole flowering display comes in late spring, in May, as the new leaves expand, and is finished before the heat of high summer.

Accepted Answer

Laburnum anagyroides