| Shrubs or trees up to 15 m tall (Wagner, et
al. 1990: 706).
This is a highly polymorphic species. |
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| The trunks have a heavy texture. | |
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| The leaves are pinnately compound with 12 to 20 leaflets. The individual leaflets are 0.7 to 5 cm long and 0.3 to 2.3 cm wide (Wagner, et al. 1990: 706). |  |
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| The flowers occur in terminal and auxillary racemes. The corolla is yell and ranges from 11.5 to 21 mm long, and 8 to 20 mm wide (Wagner, et al. 1990: 706). |  |
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| The seed pods are moderately to strongly
constricted around the seed. They range from 2 to 16 cm long.
The seeds are reported by Wagner, et al. (1990: 706) to be brown to grayish black, although we have observed numerous examples to yellow-orange seeds. This is closer to Stone and Pratt's (1994: 247) description of bright yellow-orange seeds. |
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| Thurston Lava Tube | A few flowers in a tree at the entrance. | 5/6/01 |
| Top of the Strip Road | No flowers. Seed pods are very abundant. | 5/8/01 |
| Thurston Lava Tube | No flowers in the area. | 6/16/01 |