The broom tree is actually a large desert shrub in the juniper family. There is a good write up on it at Botany Photo of the Day. Most of the time it is a collection of green twigs, ideal for a desert environment, but during the wet season it will put on small leaves, and even flower, as seen in the picture to the right. The biological name for the shrub is Ratema raetem.
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A lesson from Elijah: Faith is often found under the broom tree where we learn to surrender our will to God and begin to hear His still small voice. There is mystery here deep and profoundyet, as simple as the lesson learned under the broom tree by Elijah.
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Definition of broom tree. 1  1 : a shrub (Baccharis scoparia) of Jamaica. 2  2 : a yellow-flowered prickly shrub (Genista anglica) found on the moors of northern Europe and England.
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Retreating to a desert to die, under a broom tree, he encounters the Lord, who visits him through a messenger. That is what the word Angel means. His surrender to the voice of God, though reluctant at first, shows us a pattern. It reveals how to hear the voice of God in those difficult times in our own lives.
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For the brooms of New Zealand, see Carmichaelia. Genisteae is a tribe of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants in the subfamily Faboideae of the legume family Fabaceae. It includes a number of well-known plants including broom, lupine (lupin), gorse and laburnum.
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CHESAPEAKE, VA (Catholic Online) - The first reading of the Liturgy for the Western Church on the 19th Sunday of the Year, Year B, is drawn from the longer account of the Prophet Elijah: Elijah went a day's journey into the desert, until he came to a broom tree and sat beneath it.
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Broom (5 Occurrences) ... BROOM. broom: Occurs in 1 Kings 19:4 m (broomtree); Job 30:4, and Psalm 120:4. m as the translation of the Hebrew rothem, where the King James Version employed ... /b/broom.htm - 9k. Broom-roots (1 Occurrence)
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1 : a shrub (Baccharis scoparia) of Jamaica. 2 : a yellow-flowered prickly shrub (Genista anglica) found on the moors of northern Europe and England.
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what is a broom tree?
A broom tree is a large desert shrub in the juniper family.