Gorse
Characteristics
Widespread on coastal cliffs and scrub this spiky yellow flowered shrub flowers much of the year and has a smell of coconuts.
Gorse is a small genus with some 20 species distributed throughout Europe and North Africa growing in rocky to sandy sunny sites.
Spanish Gorse
Scientific Name: Genista lydia Boiss.
Synonym:
Family: Fabaceae ...
Broom, gorse
Genista species
Trees and Shrubs, Plants of Home and Garden ...
common gorse Fabaceae Ulex europaeus L. symbol: ULEU
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Gorse has never played much of a role in herbal medicine, though its flowers have been used in the treatment of jaundice and as a treatment for scarlet fever in children[4].
Gorse ( Ulex )
Gosai no Hikari Satsuki Azalea ( Rhododendron hybrida )
Goshiki Chiri-Tsubaki Camellia ( Camellia japonica ) ...
Gorse
Common Gorse Ulex europaeus
Grape Holly, Oregon
Oregon Grape Holly, Oregon Grape Mahonia aquifolium (Berberis aquifolium)
Grape Hyacinth
Grape Hyacinth Muscaria armeniacum
Grevillea
Rosemary Grevillea Grevillea rosmarinifolia
Greasewood ...
European gorse; furze; whin Ulex europaeus
European grape Vitis vinifera
European hawksbeard Crepis capillaris
European honeysuckle; woodbine Lonicera periclymenum
European mountain-ash Sorbus aucuparia ...
Adenocarpus Decorticans - A pea-flowering shrub, not common, with flowers like Gorse. According to Mr Bean in Trees and Shrubs, p.
Examples: Bouvardia, Heather (Calluna), Erica, Helianthemum, Hyssopus, Lavandula, Ruta, Santolina, Thymus, gorse (Ulex).
europaeus, the common furze (also called gorse and whin), thrives in sandy soil; naturalized from Europe, it is used as a hedge plant, a sand binder, and sometimes as fodder.
of Preventive Medicine, in the British Medical Journal of September 30, 1916, the writer records the results of experiments with various reputedly insecticidal substances, but mainly with Cytisine, the alkaloid obtained from the seeds of the Gorse ...
Adenocarpus decorticans is perhaps the best-known species. It is not unlike the Gorse but is spineless.
 See also: Green, May, Evergreen, Bean, Laurel
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