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
Laburnum Grove famous stage play & film" by Ruth Holland. This book marked the second "collaboration" between Holland and Priestley, as she had three years before novelized his play "Dangerous Corner". Ms. Holland was at the time known for at least one work of popular contemporary fiction of her own, "The Lost Generation", a wartime novel. She was also, by way of Priestley's second marriage, his sister-in-law. Laburnum Grove Laburnum Grove is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Carol Reed and starring Edmund Gwenn, Cedric Hardwicke and Victoria Hopper. It was based on the 1933 play of the same name written