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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Adenocarpus' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/adenocarpus/). Accessed 2024-04-18.

Family

  • Leguminosae

Glossary

glandular
Bearing glands.
trifoliolate
With three leaflets.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Adenocarpus' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/adenocarpus/). Accessed 2024-04-18.

Adenocarpus

Adenocarpus decorticans in the Mediterranean Garden at Kew, May 2021. It no longer needs the protection of a wall at Kew! Image John Grimshaw.

A genus of about ten species of deciduous or partly evergreen shrubs or small trees; leaves trifoliolate, small; flowers yellow, in terminal racemes; pod glandular, a character to which the generic name refers. The species are wild in the Mediterranean region and on the mountains of North Africa.

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