Jacksonia spinosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an erect, spindly, compact or spreading shrub with dull green branches with about twenty very sharply pointed end branches 0.5–1.3 mm (0.020–0.051 in) long, leaves reduced to dark brown, broadly egg-shaped scales, yellow-orange flowers with red markings, and woody, densely hairy pods.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Jacksonia spinosa 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
- Jacksonia
- Species
- Jacksonia spinosa
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