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Common bladder senna

Colutea arborescens

Description:

Colutea arborescens is a species of leguminous shrub known by the common name bladder-senna. It is a vigorous shrub to 3 m, takes a rounded form and has many branches covered in deciduous leaves. The leaves are pale green and made up of many pairs of slightly hairy oval-shaped leaflets, each up to about 3 cm long. The inflorescence is a raceme of generally pea-like yellow flowers about 3 cm long. The fruit is an inflated bladdery pod which dries to a papery texture. It is 2 to 3 cm long and contains many seeds. It was spotted near Makrynitsa village, Pelion mountain, Greece.

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Θεσσαλία - Στερεά Ελλάδα, Greece

Spotted on Jul 22, 2018
Submitted on Jul 25, 2018

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