Chamaecytisus proliferus (tagasaste)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Chamaecytisus proliferus, photographed by Jon Sullivan — fig. a Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 195576207

Chamaecytisus proliferus, photographed by Ina Siebert — fig. b Ina Siebert, CC0 1.0 / obs. 187346920

Chamaecytisus proliferus, photographed by Christoph Moning — fig. c Christoph Moning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184317757

Chamaecytisus proliferus, photographed by Arnim Littek — fig. d Arnim Littek, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178289695

Chamaecytisus proliferus, photographed by Christian Berg — fig. e Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175245465

Chamaecytisus proliferus, photographed by Tony Rebelo — fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 171331606

Chamaecytisus proliferus, photographed by Jenny Saito — fig. g Jenny Saito, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167678981

Chamaecytisus proliferus, photographed by Jeremy Gilmore — fig. h Jeremy Gilmore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161894017

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Native range 1 botanical country

Native distribution of Chamaecytisus proliferus, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Canary Is.	CNY	AFRICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 577 in flower of 676 examined

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38%

Proportion of examined Chamaecytisus proliferus in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	2	4	too few examined
Feb	5	9	56%	27% to 81%
Mar	9	12	75%	47% to 91%
Apr	74	92	80%	71% to 87%
May	43	55	78%	66% to 87%
Jun	55	64	86%	75% to 92%
Jul	75	84	89%	81% to 94%
Aug	138	143	97%	92% to 99%
Sep	128	129	99%	96% to 100%
Oct	40	56	71%	59% to 82%
Nov	3	15	20%	7% to 45%
Dec	5	13	38%	18% to 64%

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Chamaecytisus proliferus observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 577 of 676 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 21 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Chamaecytisus palmensis (H.Christ) Hutch.
Chamaecytisus palmensis (Christ) F.A.Bisby & K.W.Nicholls
Chamaecytisus palmensis var. palmensis
Chamaecytisus proliferus var. calderae Acebes
Chamaecytisus proliferus var. canariae (Christ) G.Kunkel
Chamaecytisus proliferus var. hierrensis (Pit.) Acebes
Chamaecytisus proliferus var. palmensis (Christ) O.Erikss., A.Hansen & Sunding
Chamaecytisus proliferus var. perezii (Hutch.) G.Kunkel
Cytisus laxiflorus (Kuntze) Linding.
Cytisus palmensis (Christ) Hutch.
Cytisus perezii Hutch.
Cytisus prolifer L.f.
Cytisus prolifer var. palmensis Christ
Cytisus proliferus L.f.
Cytisus proliferus var. angustifolius Kuntze
Cytisus proliferus var. canariae Christ
Cytisus proliferus var. hierrensis Pit.
Cytisus proliferus var. laxiflorus Kuntze
Cytisus proliferus var. nanus Kuntze
Cytisus proliferus var. palmensis Christ
Diaxulon prolifer (L.f.) Raf.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol CHPA44. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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