Spanish broom, (Spartium junceum) - Flower Portraits
Spanish broom, (Spartium junceum) is a fragrant-flowered species in the family Fabaceae, closely related to the other brooms (in the genera Cytisus and Genista). Its leaves polay little part in photosynthesis which takes place mainly in green-shoots a water-conserving stratgy foir dry places. Orvieot, Umbria April 202i


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