Koelreuteria paniculata is an elegant small deciduous tree. Leaves are pinnate, pinkish in spring, turning yellow in autumn. Small yellow flowers in conspicuous large panicles, followed by ornamental inflated bladder like bronze fruits.

Occasionally planted in parks and other public spaces.

Flowering in spring.

Deciduous perennial.

Little recorded in Britain and usually only found as a planted tree.

Rare or not recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland. It was not recorded in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire.