One of my favorite trees. I've probably planted 200 of them over the years. I don't know where on the invasive list it's currently placed, but they're not that tough to control. It's not really a good shade tree because it gets too tall and open. It is, however, a great focal point in the landscape and an interesting mass if you plant several of them in the same hole.

They really are beautiful when they bloom.

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Had a yellow form when I bought my house .Found it too large and brittle for my small property. Tries to flower in mid winter so will skip cold years .Also found it attracted carpenter ants . I removed it and planted a MUCH worse choice Schizolobium parahyba lol Gets my vote as worlds WORST landscape plant Only bad habit it doesn't have is excessive seeding refuses to flower at all lol Probably have to remove it also but was hoping to get ONE flower.

My favorite flowering tree is Colvilles glory WOWWW but it also has several bad habits sigh!!! gary

Gary, I find that sometimes planting a plant is like being married - you have to take it for better or for worse. I had the most gorgeous Cassia alata at my old house, but every year, I had to snip off the seeds before they formed to keep it from becoming invasive, and there were LOTS of seeds. I couldn't let it get too tall, either, so I could reach the seeds. It was well worth it when it bloomed, as was pulling all the surinam cherry seedlings.

Thanks all. I feel I was something less than "off my rocker" then in making that recommendation. Maybe just a little "off", period!

Fawn, I like the concept of different tiers of invasiveness. There are some species that one should just not go there, I think we all can agree. Then there are the folks getting up in arms (this is for the north now) because they drove past a ditch somewhere and old orange day lilies were growing in it! Common........give me a break! Those things are simply not a problem. Brazillian pepper? sure. Buckthorn up here? Hell yeah! But some plants just naturalize and it really and truly doesn't hurt a thing.

One of the situations where I saw ATT was in some very I guess you would say rough neighborhoods in and around F. Myers. Maybe a trailer park that was dilapidated or some such, and there would be a thicket of woods with a big old ATT in amongst it. I quite like that sort of thing. Also, the Edison grounds of course. Many a non-native species to be seen there, many in very impressive form and size.