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:This variety of broom plant is uncommon. | :This variety of broom plant is uncommon. | ||
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:Night Broom | :Night Broom ranges from sub-tropical to sub-arctic latitudes, in hills, plains and savanna, and grows best in open spaces with little shade. | ||
;Life Cycle | ;Life Cycle | ||
: | :Night broom is an semi-annual, which flowers in the late spring, keeps its petals throughout the summer until the seed pod develops fully. The seeds over-winter in the pod which dries and splits in the spring, releasing tiny black grains with feathery filaments to be dispersed by the wind. | ||
==Uses== | ==Uses== | ||
Revision as of 09:08, 4 February 2019
Description
- Common Names
- Night Broom
- Classification
- Herbaceous, Flower
A short growing broom plant, with a solitary broom shaped purple-to-black flower. The leaves of this plant are light green, with a dark purplish-black strip along the centre crease, and have a soft soft velvety texture on the topside.
Ecology
- Rarity
- This variety of broom plant is uncommon.
- Distribution
- Night Broom ranges from sub-tropical to sub-arctic latitudes, in hills, plains and savanna, and grows best in open spaces with little shade.
- Life Cycle
- Night broom is an semi-annual, which flowers in the late spring, keeps its petals throughout the summer until the seed pod develops fully. The seeds over-winter in the pod which dries and splits in the spring, releasing tiny black grains with feathery filaments to be dispersed by the wind.
Uses
- Cultivation
- wild, gathered as required.
- Culinary
- Night Broom has no known culinary use.
- Medicinal
- hallucinogen (petals), hypnotic (petals)
- Other
- poison (seeds)
