Colutea is a genus of about 28 species of deciduous flowering shrubs in the legume family Fabaceae, growing from 2–5 m tall, native to southern Europe, north Africa and southwest Asia. The leaves are pinnate and light green to glaucous grey-green. The flowers are yellow to orange, pea-shaped and produced in racemes throughout the summer. These are followed by the attractive inflated seed pods which change from pale green to red or copper in colour.
Colutea arborescens, known as bladder senna—John Gerard cautioned, however, that they are not true senna, "though we have followed others in giving it to name Bastard Sena, which name is very unproper [sic] to it"—is indigenous to the Mediterranean; it has yellow flowers. It has a height and spread of up to 5 m. Other species include Colutea orientalis, with grey leaves and coppery flowers.
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Colutea arborescens is a species of leguminous shrub known by the common name bladder-senna. It is native to Europe and North Africa, but it is known...
Colutea orientalis is a species of leguminous shrub native to Europe and Asia. It is a deciduous, grey-leafed, bushy shrub that grows to a height of up...
and insiswa ("the one that drives away the darkness") in isiZulu; syn. Colutea frutescens L., Lessertia frutescens (L.) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning) is a...
senna the Scrophulariaceae genus Seymeria Bladder sennas, the legume genus Colutea Scorpion sennas, plants in the legume genera Coronilla and Hippocrepis...
night or early morning, they often search for plants such as Indigofera colutea, which produce a hygroscopic secretion that fulfills water requirements...
and divergence times of the Coluteoid clade with special reference to Colutea (Fabaceae) inferred from nrDNA ITS and two cpDNAs, matK and rpl32-trnL(UAG)...
period is May to June in rocky places at around 2,000 m. The larva feeds on Colutea arborescens. Male above a magnificent violet- blue, with narrow black border...
The larvae feed on Astragalus monspessulanus, Astragalus granatensis, Colutea arborescens and Acanthyllis armata. Checklist of the Sesiidae of the World...
Medicago polymorpha, Medicago sulcata, Vicia, Lotus, Onobrychis, Astragalus, Colutea arborescens, Hippocrepis, and Anthyllis species). In the UK wild and cultivated...
Sardinia, Sicily, Greece, Crete and Cyprus) and Yemen. The larvae feed on Colutea arborescens. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Coleophora semicinerea...
Rose Collaea DC. Cologania Kunth Colophospermum J. Kirk ex J. Léonard Colutea L. Colvillea Bojer ex Hook. Condylostylis Piper Conzattia Rose Copaifera...
and have a sweet-acid taste. The florets have been used to flavor wine. Colutea istria Bladder senna (Arabic: sēsabān; saysib) Not a real senna, this deciduous...
Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae. The specific epithet (colutoides) means "Colutea-like". This species of pea grows in sandy and clayey soils in Western Australia...
Lizy-sur-Ourcq" - published in 1842 in French Arum maculatum Almond Arachis hypogaea Colutea arborescens Physalis alkekengi "PANCKOUCKE, Anne-Ernestine (1784-1860)"...
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