Robinia sp. Native and shrugs off heat

and shrugs off heat

shaped for the long tongues of hummingbirds and early bees that follow the bright signals through clearings as the canopy leafs out

and they turn rose to purple in fall

wholly edible rind that sets a limequat apart from any ordinary lime

staying small and spreading slowly into dense patches and colonies by underground runners

Robinia sp. Native and shrugs off heatThis showy little locust came to Woodlanders by a happy accident. Planted years ago alongside a row of black locusts, Robinia pseudoacacia, on a nearby farm, one tree surprised everyone by opening not the usual white but clusters of vivid rose purple pea flowers over compound leaves, followed by small, rough, slightly bristly seed pods. The origin is uncertain: a North American species, likely, but possibly a seedling from seed received years ago from