Desert Museum offspring

[Peter]

I dug out several seedlings from my neighbor's Palo Verda 'Desert Museum'; kept one, gave the others away.  Mine has turned out to have a weepy form with ropes of flowers

 

[Meangreen94z]

I hear they make quite a mess but I still like them. They aren’t quite as hardy as other Palo Verde variants, so I’m stuck with the native Texas specimen .

[Tom in Tucson]

Parkinsonia 'Desert Museum' is thought to be a hybrid involving 3 species. 1 is assumed to be Parkinsonia aculeata. The 1 you kept appears to have reverted to P. aculeata. They are invasive, and tend to shed a lot of litter.

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[realarch]

Beautiful Peter. The cacti and succulents are looking great too.

Tim

[richtrav]

I’ve grown out F2 Parkinsonia aculeata x texana before and the seedlings were wildly variable, some did look a lot like aculeata. That’s an exceptionally nice Parkinsonia by the way, here they look good for a few years before going downhill.