Two vessels of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

 have been named HMS Genista, after the flower

Genista

Genista is a genus of legumes which includes many species of broom. Many of these brooms are notorious as noxious weeds.Species include:*Genista aetnensis - Mount Etna broom*Genista anglica - petty whin, needle furze*Genista canariensis...

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was an Arabis-class minesweeping sloop

Arabis class sloop

The Arabis class was the third class of minesweeping sloops to be built under the Emergency War Programme for the Royal Navy in World War I as part of the larger "Flower Class", which were also referred to as the "Cabbage Class", or "Herbaceous Borders"...

 built by Napier & Miller and launched on 26 February 1916. Sunk by German submarine U-57

SM U-57

|SM U-57 was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I.U-57 was engaged in naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic....

 in the Atlantic on 23 October 1916.. was a Flower-class corvette

Flower class corvette

The Flower-class corvette was a class of 267 corvettes used during World War II, specifically with the Allied navies as anti-submarine convoy escorts during the Battle of the Atlantic...

 launched at Harland & Wolff on 24 July 1941. It was transferred to the Air Ministry in 1947 and renamed Weather Recorder, and broken up in Antwerp in October 1961.