Laburnum in "L. anagyroides" and long in "L. alpinum". They have yellow pea-flowers in pendulous leafless racemes long in spring, which makes them very popular garden trees. In "L. anagyroides", the racemes are long, with densely packed flowers; in "L. alpinum" the racemes are long, but with the flowers sparsely along the raceme. The fruit develops as a pod and is extremely poisonous. The yellow flowers are responsible for the old poetic name 'golden chain tree' (also spelled golden chaintree or goldenchain tree). All parts of the plant are poisonous, although mortality is very rare. Symptoms of laburnum poisoning may include
HMS Laburnum (1915) 1946, and sunk off East Lagoon, Singapore, as part of an existing breakwater of old hulks, and finally removed and scrapped about 1967. HMS Laburnum (1915) HMS "Laburnum" was a Royal Navy sloop built by Charles Connell and Company, Scotstoun. She was scuttled during the fall of Singapore in 1942. She was laid down at the Scotstoun yard of Charles Connell and Company in February 1915, launched on 10 June 1915 and completed in August 1915. The "Acacia"-class fleet sweeping sloops were adapted for escort work, minesweeping and as decoy warships. "Laburnum" joined the First Sloop Flotilla on commissioning. On