Robinia ×slavinii Rehder

Shrub or small tree. Leaves with variable number of leaflets. Flowers with bristles. Flowers pink. Fruit pods warty. A hybrid, R. hispida × R. pseudoacacia, originating from seed of this cross collected by B..H. Slavin in 1914 in the Durand-Eastman Park, Rochester, New York, with the pollen parent R. pseudoacacia. Syn. R. margarettiae Ashe.

Garden origin.

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Fabaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.

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Robinia ×slavinii 'Hillieri'

A small, rounded tree with profuse lilac to pink flowers in late spring. A cross raised at Hilliers Nsy, uk, and named in 1933.

kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Rosanae
order      Fabales
family       Fabaceae
genus        Robinia L.