#carmichaelia

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#2460 - Carmichaelia australis - New Zealand Common Broom

21 synonyms, most of them also in Carmichaelia. In te reo Māori, mākaka, maukoro, tainoka, taunoka, taranagahape, and neinei. There is a local saying E rito koe ki te taunoka, meaning 'taunoka has no heart', applied to an unreliable vacillating person.

A leafless nitrogen-fixing shrub found widely on both islands, which survives strong wind and drought without difficulty, but intolerant of salt spray and waterlogged soil. Hostplant to a wide range of mites and insects.

Mount Taranaki, New Zealand.

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#1911 - Carmichaelia sp. - New Zealand Broom

One of 24 species from the legume family, all endemic to Aoteoroa with the exception of one found on Lord Howe Island.

Depending which species this one actually is, it might formerly have been in Chordospartium, Corallospartium, Notospartium or Huttonella. The current genus is named after Captain Dugald Carmichael, a Scottish army officer and botanist who studied New Zealand plants.

Carmichaelias ranges in size and form from trees to prostrate species a few centimetres high. Mature plants are usually leafless, their leaves replaced by fused scale-like stipules.

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Carmichaelia australis

Common Broom

This thing is frustratingly difficult to find images of.