Cytisus × kewensis
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Cytisus × kewensis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Infraspecifics
Other taxa in genus
- Cytisus albus
- Cytisus ardoinii
- Cytisus austriacus
- Cytisus battandieri
- Cytisus × beanii
- Cytisus × dallimorei
- Cytisus decumbens
- Cytisus demissus
- Cytisus diffusus
- Cytisus emeriflorus
- Cytisus fontanesii
- Cytisus grandiflorus
- Cytisus hirsutus
- Cytisus ingramii
- 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 sessilifolius
- Cytisus × spachianus
- Cytisus supinus
- Cytisus supranubius
- Cytisus tommasinii
- Cytisus × versicolor
A low, deciduous, perfectly procumbent shrub less than 1 ft high, but sometimes 6 ft across. Leaves sometimes simple, but usually trifoliolate, downy. Flowers produced in May singly, or two or three together, at each joint of the previous year’s wood; they are each about 1⁄2 in. long, creamy white or pale sulphur-yellow, with a fine standard petal 1⁄2 in. across. Bot. Mag., n.s., t. 299.
A hybrid between C. ardoinii (seed-bearer) and C. multijlorus, raised at Kew in 1891. For growing on shelves of the rock garden few dwarf shrubs are more beautiful. The flowers are rather larger than those of C. × praecox, but otherwise very similar.