The Probert Encyclopaedia of Nature

BROOM

Broom is the popular name of several allied genera of shrubs of the family Leguminosae. In Britain the name is generally applied to Cytisus scoparius, a shrub with erect, green, angled, tough spineless stems and numerous small alternate leaves which are lanceolate below and trifoliate in the upper parts of the stems. The flowers are large, yellow and grow singularly in the upper leaf axils.
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