This tree is in the American Section, near the Park Drive fence.

The cultivar ‘Pink Cascade’ (‘Casque Rouge’) is a selection with strongly scented dark pink flowers. Created in 1934 by crossing Robina hispida var. kelsey and Robina pseudoacacia.

Supplied by Goscote Nurseries, Cossington, Leicestershire.

Robina are native to North America. Named after the royal French gardeners Jean Robin and his son Vespasien Robin, who introduced the plant to Europe in 1601.

A medium-high tree that is also sometimes grown as a large shrub. It is a vigorously growing cultivar with an irregularly rounded, slightly flattened and open crown and a height of 6 to 10 m, width 5 to 8 m.

The branches grow upright at first and bend over later in life. Young twigs are brown coloured and have conspicuous spines of about 0.5 cm. The young unfurling leaves are also brown to bronze coloured.

The strongly scented, dark pink, flowers grow in 15 cm long clusters.