EPPO Global Database

Retama raetam(RTARE)

Overview
Code created in: 2016-07-14

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: RTARE
  • Preferred name: Retama raetam
  • Authority: (Forsskål) Webb & Berthelot

Notes

Canary Islands, southern and eastern Mediterranean (including Sicily), Western Asia, Sahara. Cultivated as an ornamental, hybridizing with and confused with R. monosperma. Introduced in Greece, Australia


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Genista raetam Forsskål

Common names
Name Language
white broom English
white weeping broom English
retama Spanish
ginestra retama Italian
rotem hammidbar Hebrew
רֹתֶם הַמִּדְבָּר Hebrew