Laburnum anagyroides during May and June. "Laburnum anagyroides" blooms in late spring with pea-like, yellow flowers densely packed in pendulous racemes 10–25 cm (4–10 in) long. The flowers are golden yellow, sweet scented, and typically bloom in May. The seeds are legumes with large numbers of black seeds that contain cytisine, an alkaloid extremely poisonous to humans as well as goats and horses, especially when not ripe. However, some wild animals such as hares and deer can feed on them without any problems, and because of this the plant is believed to have magic properties in some regions. All parts of the
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