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Genista scorpius
English: Genista
Spanish: Aliaga
It is a thorny shrub, up to 2 m high, very branched and
provided with strong lateral thorns, axial, in alternate
arrangement, very sharp. Adult hairless branches, young ones
more hairy.
It is endemic to the western Mediterranean region:
southeast of France, eastern half of Spain and some
localities in North Africa. Grows on calcareous or loamy soil
Flowers
Flowers geminated or in bundles
of 3 or more, rarely solitary, at
the end of lateral shoots or on
the spines; They are produced in
large numbers. Chalice bilabiate
with shorter lips and yellowish
corolla.
Leaves
Fruit
Flowers from January to July
Few leaves, simple, depending on the location and
alternate, hairless on year; the fruit is a long,
the beam and silky on hairless legume, very
the underside compressed from 15 to 40 mm,
with 2 to 7 seeds that are
marked abroad.