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Poison bush   /pˈɔɪzən bʊʃ/   Listen
Poison bush

noun
1.
Any of various Australian evergreen shrubs of the genus Gastrolobium having whorled compound leaves poisonous to livestock and showy yellow to deep reddish-orange flowers followed by two-seeded pods.  Synonyms: gastrolobium, poison pea.
2.
Either of two Australian plants of the genus Swainsona that are poisonous to sheep.  Synonym: darling pea.





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"Poison bush" Quotes from Famous Books



... put down was sunk in a rather large flat between the sandhills. The whole country is covered with spinifex in every direction, and this, together with the poisonous bushes and a few blood-wood-trees, forms the only vegetation. The pendulous fringe instead of leaves on the poison bush gives it a strange and weird appearance, and to us it always presents the hideous, and terrible ...
— Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration • Ernest Giles


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