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Shower of yellow flowers
Name: Golden shower. Botanical name: Cassia fistula. Description: Racemes of yellow flowers cascading abundantly and gracefully from the twig ends. Originally from India, the tree is widely loved throughout the tropics. In South Florida, it has been overshadowed in recent years by its cousins, the pink C. javanica, the apple blossom cassia, and the newcomer C. bakeriana, the pink shower, but here and there are beautiful specimens. The leaves are compound, fairly large, and sometimes show micronutrient deficiencies by turning yellow. The tree is slow-growing.



