I collected a couple of seeds from a plant growing wild near the Southern Texas coast in the spring of 2009, I planted it, and as of Janu...Read Moreary 2012, it is approximately 4 feet high and 4 feet wide. It bloomed for the first time in the fall of 2011. Requires very little care and no supplemental water once established. Very high cold tolerance too.
Sophora tomentosa var. occidentalis is not endemic to Texas, as stated. It is native from Texas southward into the tropical Americas and ...Read Morein the West Indies. It was first described from Jamaica, without locality. It is far more popular in the landscape in Florida than the native var. truncata, and is beginning to naturalize. Unfortunately, the non-native variety is often sold as a Florida native plant to an unwitting public.
San Antonio, TX (Zone 8b) | January 2009 | neutral
I have not grown this plant. Necklace Pod (Sophora tomentosa var. occidentalis) is an endemic Texas native plant. It grows natively alo...Read Moreng the South Texas coastline. At maturity, the leaves of this species are densely fuzzy which gives the foliage a fuzzy gray-green or silvery appearance which distinguishes it from Sophora tomentosa var. truncata whose leaves are are smooth and somewhat shiny at maturity.
I collected a couple of seeds from a plant growing wild near the Southern Texas coast in the spring of 2009, I planted it, and as of Janu...Read More
Sophora tomentosa var. occidentalis is not endemic to Texas, as stated. It is native from Texas southward into the tropical Americas and ...Read More
occidentalis is hybridizing with our Florida native var truncata.
I hope that you will place a warning on planting this in...Read More
I have not grown this plant. Necklace Pod (Sophora tomentosa var. occidentalis) is an endemic Texas native plant. It grows natively alo...Read More