Hi, I would appreciate your help identifying this little mysterious yellow flowering beauty - see picture. This exquisite small tree has abundant yellow flower sprays in summer and carries emerald-green heart-shaped leaves all year. It has multiple shrub-like branching habit, is very slow growing, and produces yellow flowers on racemes, that yield a multitude of individual small pods with single seeds about the size of a flat pea. The tree is now about 12 feet high. I live in Brisbane Australia, and have never seen this tree anywhere else here, and it was established in our garden before us. No insects eat it's leaves, so I suspect it is exotic to Australia. Thanks in anticipation.
I think this is Barklya syringifolia --"goldblossom," or "crown of gold," a small-medium tree from the dry rainforests in the Brisbane area. I thought the leaves resembled lilac leaves, so that is where I started looking. It is highly recommended as a specimen tree for small spaces in your area, but is apparently not as widely used as it probably should be.
