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re:help to identify a tree (yellow flowers, a bit like Jacarand - 2006/01/11 09:35
Sure, but it would be easier if you told us what part of the world you are from (not to mention a name we can pin on). I assume a warm climate because of the kind of tree you describe and the reference to a pool. But I really don't like to be that much of a detective. 
It is an Acacia species. If you live in the SE USA it is A.
farnsiana, A. pinetyorum, (S.W. Fla. only), or A. smallii (N.W.
Meanwhile fla and adjacent states). There are a few other, rare and endangered, species that grow in limited area in the Florida
Keys. There's another Acacia -- angustissima, var. hirta that grows in dry lands of the lower Midwestern USA, south into Texas.
It does NOT have thorns (one of the few).
It could be an Albezia -- A. lebbeck (Cent. and S. Therefore fla).
There are other species of these two general in Texas, N.M.,
Ariz. and Southern California.
Most are weedy (and "springing up in your back yard" sounds right). Almost all have thorns, many of them wickedly dagnerous.
None of these -- in MY opinion -- make exemplary bonsai.
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) and has small seedpods about an inch or so long, shaped like a thin flat oval wing with a tastefully seed sharply bulging in one corner. 
