[pamela]

I saw this tree in the Costa Brava in May

[oron peri]

Pamela, it is one of the many cultivars and hybrids of pink Robinia difficult to give a name fromthis photo.

[pamela]

And thanks again!

[Alisdair]

Looks like 'Casque Rouge'?

[pamela]

Yes, I think your right, Alisdair

[John]

This might be as well? Taken in central Italy 3 years ago.

[Fleur Pavlidis]

Didn't we see robinias like this planted as street trees in Limassol? I wonder if selected cultivars of Robinia would be less likely to self seed around the place - not that my one stunted specimen of the common Robinia pseudoacacia  even flowers much let alone self-seeding. I have a feeling that they are planted in Greece at the edge of new mountain roads as fast growers to stabilise the soil. I can't think why else they would be introduced.

[John J]

Fleur, I can't bring to mind any areas of Limassol where Robinias are used as street trees, especially the pink varieties as they tend to be fairly uncommon here. Robinia pseudoacacia are used by the Forestry Dept as pioneer trees to stabilise slopes in their reforestation of the Amiandos asbestos mines. They do sucker freely as is evident from an abandoned field about 100 m from our front gate. The original tree, however it got there, has created quite a small copse around itself.