Pineapple Broom, Moroccan Broom               SI-ti-sus ba-ton-dee-E-ree

• Deciduous shrub or small tree, 15 ft (5 m) tall, spreading with age to a width equaling height, pubescent branches.  Leaves alternate, trifoliate (3 leaflets), silver-gray green, 4 cm wide and up to 10 cm long, pubescent.  Flowers bright yellow, pea flower shape, 2 cm, pineapple-scented, in dense, upright cone-shaped clusters to 10 cm long; blooms in late spring-early summer.
• Sun.  New shoots are produced from the base, remove old shoots as needed.
• Hardy to USDA Zone 7      Native to Morocco.  Introduced to the British nursery trade in about 1922.  Received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit in 1993.
• battandieri: after Jules Aimé Battandier; French botanist and authority on Algerian plants.