Government Pavilion, C/ Padre Herrera s/n
P.O. Box 456
38200, San Cristóbal de La Laguna
Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Spain
Switchboard Tel.: (+34) 922 31 90 00
Hours: Mon-Fri, 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Canary Islands Flora Garden
Fabaceae
Dorycnium broussonetii (Choisy ex Ser. in DC.) Webb & Berthel.
Broussonet's Crag Clover
A trailing shrub that can reach 1.5 m in height, with woody stems. Its leaves are five-leafed, glaucous green, with obcordate (inverted heart-shaped) leaflets and entire margins. The flowers are papilionaceous, with a whitish corolla and purple veins, grouped in clusters of a few flowers (5-6). The fruit is a straight legume. A very rare and endangered Canary Island endemic.
