The world is filled with wattles ― 1,350 species, more or less. Of the Acacia genus, in the Mimosa family, wattle trees often have little puffy flowers and long seed pods. Six hundred are native ...

The papery salmon-pink seed pods of the golden rain tree are highly decorative. The bright yellow flowers appear in summer or fall, depending on the species.

Now, the trees are 25 feet high and festooned with seed pods, thick with feathery elliptical leaves. One tree shows a ragged tear where a midnight thief hurriedly tore off a branch. Advertisement ...

They are powder puff-like with many filaments and are white to light green. The fruit follows the flowers and are bean-like seed pods which mark it as the legume it is.

It gets even worse in the winter when the long, fleshy seed pods begin to fall off the tree. If anything, these “berries” are even stickier than the flowers. What a mess!

You may remember that mimosa seeds are potentially very long-lived. According to the University of Tennessee, mimosa seeds are 90% viable after five years. This is due to their hard seed coats.

White capote has the potential to reach 50 feet in height and tolerate wetter soil than most fruit trees and will yield a ...

Morning glories are colorful climbers with slender stems, large, heart-shaped leaves, and trumpet-shaped flowers that curl gorgeously into themselves to eventually create seed pods for next year.

Q: I have a tree that is about 15 feet tall growing in my natural area. It has big tropical-like leaves that it loses in the winter. In the spring it has white flowers with little red stripes.