On 7/9/07 12:36, in article , "Uncle Marvo"
wrote:

In reply to Sacha ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

On 7/9/07 12:10, in article
,
" wrote:

On 7 Sep, 02:04, Anne Jackson wrote:
Gorse?

Yes, I would say Gorse. I don't think it is a Cytisus because of the
leaves - the C. scoparius leaves are round (note the leaves on the
picture) and the 'Lena' has lots of red in its petals.

Gorse doesn't have that red on it, though.

http://tinyurl.com/2lsfgs

I don't think it's a gorse either. I don't know what it is though, I've
never seen it before.


If you look at the photo of the Cytisus scoparius the flower, at least, is
very similar. It's a broom but not a gorse-y one, IMO, or not the gorses
I'm familiar with and there's plenty over Dartmoor! Bearing in mind it's in
Australia, perhaps it's a native we haven't seen here but to which others
are related. For example, the Sturts Desert Pea beside it is actually
Swainsona formosa.

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Sacha
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