1. Judas tree: said to be the tree from which Judas hung himself. The pink buds on the bare branches being his blood [Ilminster, Somerset, May 2015].
2. If you stand under a Judas tree and tell a lie you will drop down dead … given to me by a couple of people in a party that I was taking round our gardens, so regretfully I didn’t get the geographical source [Barsham, Suffolk, May 2002].
Images: cultivated, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, May 2015.