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GENUS OF PLANTS
Golden chain tree; Golden chain; Golden Chain (flowering trees); Golden chaintree; Laburnam
  • Freshly cross cut laburnum with visible heart-wood

Laburnum         
·noun A small leguminous tree (Cytisus Laburnum), native of the Alps. The plant is reputed to be poisonous, ·esp. the bark and seeds. It has handsome racemes of yellow blossoms.
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¦ noun a small hardwood tree with hanging clusters of yellow flowers followed by pods of poisonous seeds. [Genus Laburnum.]
Origin
mod. L., from L.
laburnum         
(laburnums)
A laburnum or a laburnum tree is a small tree which has long stems of yellow flowers.
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Wikipedia

Laburnum

Laburnum, sometimes called golden chain or golden rain, is a genus of two species of small trees in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae. The species are Laburnum anagyroidescommon laburnum and Laburnum alpinumalpine laburnum. They are native to the mountains of southern Europe from France to the Balkans.

Some botanists include a third species, Laburnum caramanicum, but this native of southeast Europe and Anatolia is usually treated in a distinct genus Podocytisus, more closely allied to the Genisteae (brooms).

Examples of use of laburnum
1. They‘ve now killed two more trees in our neighbour‘s garden, a gorgeous magnolia and a laburnum.
2. In court, dressed in a light blue military jacket with the word "Goi" on the front, Doherty removed his trademark trilby as he confirmed his address as Laburnum Street in east London.
3. In court, dressed in a blue jacket with the word "Goi" on the front, Doherty removed his trademark trilby hat as he confirmed his address as Laburnum Street in east London.
4. The Champix molecule is based on a chemical found in the leaves of the cytisus laburnum tree, which was used as a tobacco substitute by soldiers in the Second World War.
5. Mr Irvine‘s body was found by a friend in an upstairs bedroom of his house in Leach Road, Bicester, Oxfordshire, at 11am on Sunday while Mr Bentley and his girlfriend were found three miles away at around 2pm at a house in Laburnum Close, Ambroseden.