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Wiborgiella humilis (Dyer's greenweed; Retama Tintorera; Retama De Tintes)

Synonyms: Acanthobotrya decumbens; Genista humilis (heterotypic); Lebeckia humilis (homotypic); Wiborgia apterophora; Wiborgia humilis (homotypic)
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [2]  Deciduous
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Bees, Bats
Structure [2]  Shrub
Usage [2]  A very good quality yellow dye is obtained from the whole plant, but especially from the flowers and young shoots; It produces a very good quality green when mixed with woad (Isatis tinctoria); Alum, cream of tartar and sulphate of lime are used to fix the colour; The stems can be dried and stored until the dye is required; A fibre obtained from the stems is used for coarse cloth and cordage; Plants can be used as a ground cover when spaced about 45cm apart each way; The cultivar 'Flore Pleno' is always dwarf and is more reliable than the species;
Height [2]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Width [2]  39 inches (1 m)
Light Preference [4]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [4]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [4]  Infertile
Soil Moisture [4]  Moist
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Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Orobanche rapum-genistae (greater broomrape)[6]
Uromyces pisi-sativi[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004)
♦ 4ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0