compound, reddish with silvery hairs when young, dark green when
mature and have 16 to 40 oblong leaflets. Seven- to 9-inch racemes of
1 inch flowers are produced in great abundance during early April
before leaves appear. Flowers are a delicate rose-pink and have a
yellow throat after first opening; however, the pink changes to salmon
with age. Large pods 11/ by 18 inches appear after flowers and remain
attached for months. Pink-shower serves well as a specimen tree and
may also be used as a background tree.

 Java shower, Cassia javanica, native of Java and Sumatra com-
monly attains a height of 30 feet with an open spreading crown and
long branches topped with large clusters of bright rose-pink flowers
during May and June. Trees remain bare during winter months and
produce new pinnately compound leaves composed of many oval leaf-
lets just prior to flowering. Flowers occur sporadically through the
summer until October. Large pods up to 18 inches long appear after
flowers and remain attached as long as 18 months. Java shower
is recommended as a specimen, street and avenue, patio or background
tree.

 The pink-and-white shower, Cassia nodosa, native to Malaya, is
distinguished from the Java shower by its scented smaller flowers
which are deep rose pink, and also by its smooth rather than spiny
trunk (Fig. 16). Much confusion exists between Java shower and
pink-and-white shower and some botanists believe they may be ex-
tremes of the same species. Pink-and-white shower is deciduous
during winter months but produces leaves prior to flowering in spring.
This tree is recommended for use in parks and other public areas
as well as for homeowner use as a specimen, patio, border and back-
ground tree.

 Calceolaria shower, Cassia spectabilis, a native of tropical Amer-
ica, is noted for its fall bloom. This evergreen tree grows rapidly,
achieving a height of 50 feet. Crowns are dense and spreading above
a trunk which is smooth when young but cracks vertically with age.
Pinnately compound leaves are 6 to 16 inches long and made up of
6 to 15 pairs of lanceolate leaflets. Bright yellow flowers about 11/2
inches across are borne in 8- to 25- inch pyramidal racemes at ends
of upright leafy branches during November and December. This tree
is excellent for use throughout southern Florida for fall color.
Calceolaria shower is recommended as a framing, background or
specimen tree.


 Casuarina spp. Casuarinaceae. Australian-Pine or Beefwood.
Southern and Central areas. Evergreen. Australia.
 Australian-pine is planted extensively in southern Florida for a
multitude of landscape uses. These trees grow on acid and alkaline
soils, sand dunes, calcareous rocky soils, muck and many other soil
types of the lower peninsula. Some areas have passed legislation to