White weeping broom

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Retama raetam

White weeping broom, a reference photo
Photo: Original: Ariel Palmon Derived: Peter Coxhead · CC BY-SA 4.0 (licence)

Retama raetam is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to northern Africa from the Western Sahara to Sudan, Sicily, Israel, Sinai Peninsula, the Palestine region and Saudi Arabia, and widely naturalized elsewhere.

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Is it poisonous?

We have no record of White weeping broom being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

Classification

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Fabales
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Retama
Species
Retama raetam

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