The golden rain-tree is an excellent landscape tree for warm climates. It is not difficult to plant, prune, and display a rain-tree in the front yard.

The golden-rain tree has lightly textured, toothed foliage with the feel of fringe, and it wears its airy sprays of yellow flower panicles, well, like fringe.

Golden rain trees tend to have open, rangy, leaning habits and brittle wood which breaks during windstorms – strike 2. Prune them while young to establish good branch structure and a tidy shape.

Golden rain trees are quick-growing and may be nice for your site if you plan to control the seedlings. It is also home to red and black golden rain tree bugs that can be a nuisance but are not ...

A: Chinese flame tree and golden raintree are common names applied to K. paniculata and K. bipinnata. At first glance, the species look quite similar. But look closer, and you'll see differences.