A genus of flowering plants in the pea family, commonly known as bladder senna, with yellow flowers and distinctive inflated seed pods.
From Latin colutea, borrowed from Greek kolouta. The plant was known to ancient Greeks and Romans for its distinctive papery seed pods that look like small bladders.
Colutea was one of the first plants Europeans brought back from the Mediterranean and Middle East—gardeners loved it because it's nearly impossible to kill and produces these amazing papery balloon-like seed pods that kids find irresistible. It's basically an indestructible ornamental.
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