It is said that his family name of Plantagenet came from "planta genista," Genista being the old name for Scotch broom, but Dr. Hort digresses. You really don't want this plant in your garden (and ...

Brooms, which encompass species within both the Cytisus and Genista genera ... This habit gives it the appearance of an old-fashioned broom, hence the common name. The brooms are certainly ...

Hundreds of plant and animal species have found ... but you may see a relative: sweet broom, maybe labeled Genista spachiana or Cytisus spachianus. It's supposed to be noninvasive, but Cal-IPC ...

They were then used as brushes which we still call brooms. Another old name for broom was Planta genista. The coat of arms of Henry II included a sprig of broom pods, because his father came from ...

The common broom (planta genista in Latin) was the emblem of Geoffrey, head of England's royal family that died with Richard III. When you type a plant name into Google and the first six websites ...

It is the Planta genista of the old Plantagenet kings of England. As a result the related seedpods of broom-flowers are wonderfully visible on the robes of the courtiers and angels in the National ...

Mount Etna broom is a whopper ... you are set on growing this plant, but I might flag up a yellow-flowered relation (a fellow member of the Genista family, with pea-style flowers) that would ...