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Cytisus proliferus (Escabon; Tagasaste; Tree Lucerne)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Cytisus proliferus, tagasaste or tree lucerne, is a small spreading evergreen tree that grows 3-4m high. It is a well known fertilizer tree. It is a member of the Fabaceae (pea) family and is indigenous to the dry volcanic slopes of the Canary Islands, but it is now grown in Australia, New Zealand and many other parts of the world as fodder crop.
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Infraspecies

Cytisus proliferus var. calderae
Cytisus proliferus var. meridionalis
Cytisus proliferus var. proliferus

Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Structure [1]  Shrub

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ileostylus micranthus (Mistletoe)[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
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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