Sophora occurs as genus of about 60-70 coinage of little trees and shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae. A metal money come indigen from either south-east Europe across southern Asia, Australasia, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and western South America.

the genus once experienced a judicial activism including numbers of more coinage at present treated within more genera, notably Styphnolobium, which differs in lacking nitrogen fixing bacteria (rhizobia) on the roots, and Calia (the mescalbeans).

A New Zealand Sophora species come referred to as Kowhai.

A Toromiro was formerly the most common tree in the forests of Easter Island. A tree fell victim to a deforestation that eliminated the island's forests per 18th century, and late became extinct in the wild. the tree is existence reintroduced to the island inside a scientific task led per Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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