Parkinsonia Aculeata

Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug

Trees, Shrub or small tree up to 8(13) m high., Tree

Perennial, Perennial, Deciduous

12-36 ft.

Flowers in fairly lax racemes up to 20 cm long; bracts up to 2 mm long, caducous; pedicels 7–16 mm long excluding the elongate lower part of the hypanthium., Flowers in 5-6 inch racemes

Pods (2)3–12(15) × 0.5–0.8 cm, linear, compressed, usually ± straight, constricted between the seeds, glabrous, light grey-brown; seeds up to 8 but commonly only 1–4 developing, c.9 × 6 × 2.5 mm, elliptic-oblong, light brown with dark markings., Light green, 2-4 inch legume