| General Description | A very urban tolerant tree especially to heat, drought, pollution, compacted soils, and poor soils. |
| ID Characteristic | A very showy and eye-catching tree when in flower. |
| Landscape | Shade, specimen, or Summer-flowering focal point trees. |
| Cultivation | Performs best in full sun in moist, well-drained soils of average fertility, but is very urban tolerant. |
| Pests | Potato leaf hopper, twig blight, branch and trunk canker. |
| Habitat | Upright rounded growth habit in youth, becoming more spreading with age. |
| Bark/Stem Description | The trunk has interlacing ridges and is more deeply furrowed, becoming light brown to gray-brown with maturity. |
| Leaf Description | Alternate, medium to dark green, with about 9 to 13 ovate leaflets with acute apices per pinnately compound leaf, having faded green to chartreuse autumn colour. |
| Flower Description | Creamy-white to yellowish-green large inflorescences. |
| Fruit Description | Yellow-green fruit, with the large beans appearing as knobs. |
| Texture Description | Green twigs and greenish-yellow young branches for the first four years of growth, becoming chartreuse-brown, pseudo-striated branches with age |