Botanical Name: Cassia alata

Common Names: Candlestick Cassia

Plant type: Shrub, tree

Zone: 8a to 11

Light: Full sun

Size: From 6 to 30' tall

Water: Average water needs

Soil: Average garden soil

Propagation: Cuttings, seed

Bloom: Yellow

Note: Host plant for Sleepy Orange, Cloudless Sulphur, and Orange-barred Sulphur.

Note: All parts of plant are posionous.
Note: Can seed freely causing dozens of plants to grow like weeds.
Note: Caterpillars are green when they eat leaves. In the fall when the yellow flowers and flower buds appear, caterpillars which eat the blooms and buds will be yellow.