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Genista stenopetala, the sweet broom, Easter broom or leafy broom (syn. Genista spachiana, Cytisus spachianus), is a species of flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae, native to the Canary Islands, on La Palma and Tenerife. It is an evergreen shrub growing to 3 metres (9.8 ft) tall. The leaves are trifoliate, the leaflets 1–3 ...
Genista / dʒ ɛ ˈ n ɪ s t ə / [2] is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae, native to open habitats such as moorland and pasture in Europe and western Asia. They include species commonly called broom , though the term may also refer to other genera, including Cytisus and Chamaecytisus .
Genista: generic name from the Latin from which the Plantagenet kings and queens of England took their name, Genesta plant or plante genest, alluding to a story that, when William the Conqueror set sail for England, he plucked a plant that held fast, tenaciously, to a rock and stuck it in his helmet as a symbol that he too would be tenacious in his perilous task.
Moringa stenopetala, commonly known as the African Moringa or cabbage tree, is a deciduous tree in the plant genus Moringa, native to Kenya and Ethiopia. [3] A drought-resistant species, it is characterized by its bottle-shaped trunk, long twisted seed pods , and edible leaves likened to cabbage, from which its common name is derived.
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Genista sagittalis, called the arrow-jointed broom and winged broom, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Genista, native to central and southern Europe, Ukraine, and Anatolia. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Its subspecies Genista sagittalis subsp. delphinensis , called rock broom, has gained the Royal Horticultural Society 's Award of Garden Merit .
Genista tinctoria, the dyer's greenweed [1] or dyer's broom, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. Its other common names include dyer's whin, waxen woad and waxen wood. Its other common names include dyer's whin, waxen woad and waxen wood.