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Laburnum

[ UK /lˈæbɜːnəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. flowering shrubs or trees having bright yellow flowers; all parts of the plant are poisonous

How To Use Laburnum In A Sentence

  • A mature specimen will spread four metres or more and like other large flowered hybrids is ideal for summer flowers on walls, fences and pergolas, or for growing through a climbing rose or an earlier flowering tree like laburnum.
  • A scent came to her nostrils, like the mingled smell of laburnum honey and lobster thermidor.
  • I am sure there is some legislation that states that laburnums can't be planted near grazing land because of the poisoning risk
  • It's something that laburnums suffer from and I fear that once you've got it, it will spread very rapidly through all the other laburnums.
  • One of the most curious instances is the terminal flower of the raceme of the common laburnum, which loses its whole papilionaceous character and becomes as regularly quinate as a common buttercup. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
  • One can also see a lovely section of flowering crabs and laburnums.
  • Among other plants which may cause serious mischief, but are seldom suspected, are such harmless-looking flowers as the meadowsweet, herb-paris, the common fool's-parsley, found growing in quantities in the gardens of unlet houses and neglected ground which has been in cultivation, mezereon, columbine, and laburnum. The Naturalist on the Thames
  • A scent came to her nostrils, like the mingled smell of laburnum honey and lobster thermidor.
  • Many other garden plants are also highly toxic, including rhubarb leaves, autumn crocuses, delphiniums, foxgloves and laburnum.
  • Irishman dwelling with Englishmen, was directed to have a bow of his own height made of yew, wych-hazel, ash, or awburne -- that is, laburnum, which is still styled "awburne saugh," or awburne willow, in many parts of Scotland. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829
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