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Cytisus × beanii
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Cytisus × beanii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Other taxa in genus
- Chamaecytisus supinus
- Cytisus ardoini
- Cytisus × dallimorei
- Cytisus decumbens
- Cytisus demissus
- Cytisus diffusus
- Cytisus emeriflorus
- Cytisus fontanesii
- Cytisus grandiflorus
- Cytisus hirsutus
- Cytisus ingramii
- Cytisus × kewensis
- Cytisus monspessulanus
- Cytisus multiflorus
- Cytisus nigricans
- Cytisus palmensis
- Cytisus × praecox
- Cytisus procumbens
- Cytisus proliferus
- Cytisus purgans
- Cytisus purpureus
- Cytisus racemosus
- Cytisus ratisbonensis
- Cytisus rochelii
- Cytisus scoparius
- Cytisus × spachianus
- Cytisus supranubius
- Cytisus tommasinii
- Cytisus × versicolor
A deciduous, semi-prostrate shrub 6 to 18 in. high, twice or thrice as wide, with round, slightly grooved, slender branches, hairy when young, afterwards glabrous. Leaves simple, linear, about 1⁄2 in. long, hairy. Flowers produced singly, in pairs, or in threes at each joint of the previous summer’s growth, deep golden yellow, forming charming sprays of blossom up to 1 ft in length. Bot. Mag., n.s., t. 366.
A chance hybrid raised at Kew in 1900, and first noticed in a bed of seedlings of C. ardoinii. The pollen parent was evidently C. purgans, which it resembles in leaf and stem; its semi-prostrate habit it inherits from C. ardoinii. It flowers in May, and is then one of the prettiest of dwarf brooms; it is, however, at its best when two or three years old.