{"id":1065,"date":"2011-07-01T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2011-06-27T21:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T01:44:00","slug":"goldenrain-tree-sparks-a-july-golden-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/07\/01\/goldenrain-tree-sparks-a-july-golden-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldenrain Tree &#8211; A Golden Shower of Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1066\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Koelreuteria-paniculata-6.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1066\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1066\" title=\"Koelreuteria paniculata (6)\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Koelreuteria-paniculata-6-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Koelreuteria-paniculata-6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Koelreuteria-paniculata-6-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golden Raintree in Urban Parking Lot<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Goldenrain tree (<em>Koelreuteria paniculata<\/em>) is a medium sized landscape tree maturing to\u00a030-40 feet in height and spread with rounded canopy. A native of China,\u00a0Japan, and Korea,\u00a0the tree\u00a0is winter hardy in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7). Large panicles of dark yellow flowers\u00a0set off a golden\u00a0fireworks\u00a0for your 4th of July\u00a0celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Individual flowers\u00a0barely measure a\u00a01\/2&#8243; wide, but the multi-branched floral\u00a0panicles measure 10-15\u00a0&#8221; across. The bipinnately compound\u00a0leaves are also large at 8 to 14 inches in spread. The medium green colored spring\/summer foliage turns pale green in autumn before dropping.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nYellow-green\u00a0triangular 1 to 2 inches long seed capsules soon follow after flowering. The papery seed capsules are often called &#8220;Chinese lanterns&#8221; and are\u00a0a significant\u00a0ornamental feature. Each lantern may contain 1-3 hard black globular seeds. By early fall the capsules have turned dark brown. Bark of old trees is ridged with shallow reddish brown\u00a0furrows.<\/p>\n<p>Goldenrain tree\u00a0grows in a wide range of soils, including high pH soils. It&#8217;s rarely\u00a0bothered by pests and demonstrates exceptional heat and drought tolerances. It\u00a0excels as a\u00a0specimen yard tree, or\u00a0utilize planted along wide avenues\u00a0or in\u00a0parking lots with their\u00a0lower branches\u00a0limbed high.<\/p>\n<p>Seed viability may\u00a0potentially be an\u00a0invasive plant issue in some\u00a0Southeastern states.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking ahead<\/strong>: see also blog on Chinese flametree to be published 7-15-11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goldenrain tree (Koelreuteria paniculata) is a medium sized landscape tree maturing to\u00a030-40 feet in height and spread with rounded canopy. A native of China,\u00a0Japan, and Korea,\u00a0the tree\u00a0is winter hardy in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7). Large panicles of dark yellow flowers\u00a0set off a golden\u00a0fireworks\u00a0for your 4th of July\u00a0celebration. Individual flowers\u00a0barely measure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[674,695,646,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1456,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}