Genista hispanica Spanish Gorse

A small, densely spiny, deciduous shrub that produces lots of yellow peaflowers in early summer and which is native to south-western Europe. It has a scattered distribution in Britain but it is not common as a wild, naturalised species. It is sometimes planted along roads and in industrial and retail estates. There few records of it in West Glamorgan, but a small population  in Resolven, Neath Port Talbot, has been known for several years.

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