Who wants a challenge.

This is a plant I grew from seed that fell into my pocket, when I visited Ventnor botanical gardens a couple of years ago.
Pretty sure it a legume and remember the plant as being about 7 ft high.
Would like to know so as to get some idea how hardy it is.
Some kind of Broom perhaps.

 

Gosh, you are the person I would ask ... or @strongylodon

Sort of looks familiar ... maybe Caragana arborescens - Siberian Peashrub ... what colour was the flower?

 

Why not just email them that image, saying you thought you saw something similar/same whilst there, and ask them what it is? Don't ask, don't get.

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I dunno, it was just pods when I saw it.

 

Because I want you lot to work it out for me, there's no fun in that.
I dont know what it is.

 

My first thought was 'Pistachio'. Not Pistacia lentiscus, the true Pistachio vera? But it's a dead ringer for Caragana as well.

 

The leaflets are slightly hairy, and it was definitely a pea like, but small pod.

Cant see why Ventnor would be growing a Siberian pea.

 

How about a chick pea

 

No,dont think so the seed was about the size of Acacia.

 

What a handsome specimen of Reynoutria japonica you accidentally acquired Pete

What do you think of Phyllanthaceae? Something in the family might not be far off

 

Well it is a good suggestion, but I still think it was a legume, unless I'm remembering wrong.

 

Why not?

 

Well it wouldn't exactly be taking advantage of it's position, but I do see your point.

 

No