Common name: Necklace Pod
Botanical name: Sophora tomentosa Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Necklace Pod is a beautiful, dense, multi-trunked, 6-10 ft tall shrub. The
leaves are a wonderful silvery green color. The odd-pinnately compound
leaves consist of 11-21 leaflets that are oval in shape. The leaflets,
rachis, petiole and young branch tips are covered with silvery, velvety
hairs that gives the plant its silvery appearance. Bright yellow flowers
appear in spikes, 4-16 inches long, at the end of branches. Flowers occur
periodically throughout the year, which makes it a desired garden plant.
These showy flowers open from the base to the elongating tip of the flower
spike. Attractive brown seedpods are borne on the plant after flowering
ceases, but they can frequently be found on the plant together. These pods
are 2-8 inches long and the seeds are so prominent that they look like
necklace beads.
Identification credit: Lisa
| Photographed in Lal Bagh Botanical Garden, Bangalore. |
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