Genista tinctoria.

Botanical name: 

Genista tinctoria Linn. Leguminosae. Dyer's-Broom. Woodwaxen.

Europe in the region of the Caucasus. The buds are pickled and used in sauces as a caper substitute.


Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World, 1919, was edited by U. P. Hedrick.