Furze is a wild bush with sharp, needle-like stems and bright yellow flowers. It grows on hills, heaths, and coastal land, especially in Britain and Ireland, and it makes a thick, scratchy cover that sheep will not push through. Country people long used the dry stems as fuel. Another common English name for the same plant is gorse; in some places people also say whin. Furze is the older country word in parts of Britain. Taiwanese students will not meet this bush on the street here — think of it as the spiky yellow hill-plant in English countryside stories. Though actually, the flowers can smell a little like coconut, which surprises people the first time they notice.

荊豆、金雀花（帶刺的黃花野灌木；英語也常叫 gorse）