Our kidneywood trees are blooming again, and they have a wonderfully sweet fragrance. I never water them, and they survived this latest brutal summer, when everything else is struggling to survive. Plus the bees love them. #grownostr #trees #nature #countrylife #permaculture

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Super pretty πŸ’œ

Howd they get the name of kidneywood? ☺️

I had never heard of kidneywood and went down a bit of a Wikipedia rabbit hole… this effect sounds amazing! I don’t know if all kidneywoods can do it, though it’s apparently also found in other Fabaceae plants

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lignum_nephriticum

I've heard that it has medicinal uses for the kidneys, thus the name, but had not read about it changing the color of water. Interesting.