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What is gorse?
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02/08/2007
From Wikipedia: Gorse (Ulex) comprises a genus of about 20 species of evergreen shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, native to western Europe and northwest Africa, with the majority of species in Iberia. Other common names for gorse include furse, whin and furze. See the Wikipedia article "Gorse" for more info.
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