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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

European broom in English is the name of a plant defined with Cytisus scoparius in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Sarothamnus oxyphyllus Boiss. (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Flora von Schlesien (1832)
· Enumeratio Plantarum Horti Regii Berolinensis Altera (1822)
· Revue de Cytologie et de Biologie Végétales, le Botaniste (1986)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2007)
· Opera Botanica (1999)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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