Genus Genista (Noun)
Meaning
Chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Parts of the genus Genista were once thought to be toxic to equines but have been later disputed.
- Cytisus and Genista are considered as the two large groups of spiny legume shrubs that dominate garrigue or low Mediterranean scrub.
- Some plants of the genus Genista can be grown in ordinary well-drained soil but they prefer well-drained sandy soil.
- Scotch broom Genista tinctoria is an alternate host in the life cycle of soybean cyst nematode and the virus of tobacco mosaic.
- In the Atlas Mountains of North Africa some Genista species form a characteristic component of the ecosystem.