Sophora tetraptera

Plant Characteristics
Habit		tree
Height:	⇕	6 m"m" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 6. to 12 m"m" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Width:	⇔	4 m"m" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 4. to 10 m"m" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10.
Origin:	✈	New Zealand
Poisonous:	☠	All parts
Bloom:	❀	early spring, mid spring, late spring

Cultivation

Exposure:	☼	sun, part-sun
Water:	◍	moist, moderate
Features:	✓	evergreen, flowers, birds, wildlife, bonsai, hummingbirds

Scientific Names
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Read about Sophora tetraptera in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Sophora tetraptera, Ait. (Edwardsia tetraptera, Poir.). Shrub or small tree, 30, rarely 40 ft. high, with slender spreading branches: lfts. very numerous, almost sessile, obovate to linear-oblong, silky-pubescent: fls. in 2-8-fld. racemes, pendulous, about 1 1/2 in. long: pod 4-winged, 7 in. long. Spring. New Zeal., Lord Howe Isl., Juan Fernandez, Chile.—The following varieties are in cult.: Var. grandiflora, Hook. f. (Edwardsia grandiflora, Salisb.). Lfts. linear-oblong, obtuse, appressed silky-pubescent on both sides, about 1 in. long, in 10-25 pairs: fls. 1 2/3 in. long; standard shorter than wings. Var. microphylla, Hook. f. (S. microphylla, Ait. Edwardsia Macnabiana, Curt.). Lfts. orbicular-obovate to broadly oblong, usually emarginate, glabrous or nearly so above, sparingly pubescent beneath, sometimes only on the midrib, 1/4 – 1/2 in. long: fls. about 1 1/2 in. long; standard about as long as wings. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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