Caesalpinia gilliesii Low Stock cinnamon-to-tan bark clothes mature trunks

cinnamon-to-tan bark clothes mature trunks

by most measures

tangy juice

Trim lightly after flowering to keep the mound neat

plant 'Hummingbird' in sun to part shade and moist

Caesalpinia gilliesii Low Stock cinnamon-to-tan bark clothes mature trunksFew hardy shrubs put on a show like Caesalpinia gilliesii, the desert bird of paradise, whose summer flowers open clear yellow and send out a spray of long scarlet stamens like fireworks caught mid burst. A legume from the dry country of Argentina and Uruguay, long naturalized across the American Southwest, the plant carries ferny, blue green, mimosa like foliage that sets off the flamboyant bloom. Botanists now place the species in the genus