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Retem

Retama raetam

Also called White Weeping Broom

Retem
Photo: Original: Ariel Palmon Derived: Peter Coxhead, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
S. Sicilia, S. & E. Medit. to Sahara and Arabian Pen.
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

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.

Other Retama plants

Retama dasycarpa · Bridal broom · Retama rhodorhizoides · Yellow Bridal Broom · Bridal broom

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Retama raetam by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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