Cladrastis sinensis

Chinese yellowwood or American yellowwood is in the pea or Fabaceae family and is commonly found throughout China, reaching up to 15 m in height.

• Leaves are alternate, pinnately compound, 20—30 cm long, with 11—13 (sometimes up to 17) sub-oppositely arranged leaflets (noteworthy ID feature), each leaflet is narrow-oblong with an acute apex, 9—12 cm long and 2.5—3.3 cm broad, glabrous above, rusty-downy on the midrib and glaucous underneath; stocks are downy. The green foliage, turns yellow (and sometimes orange) in the fall.
• Flowers are fragrant, white, 1.3 cm long, produced in racemes or panicles up to 30 cm long.
• Fruit is a legume, smooth, flattened brown pod 5-7.5 cm long and tipped.