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/pˈɔɪzən bʊʃ/ Listen

Poison bush

noun

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.

Either of two Australian plants of the genus Swainsona that are poisonous to sheep. Synonym: darling pea.

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... 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