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Erect, much branched, spiny shrubs ±2.0-2.5 m high, with the young stems and branches shallowly zigzagging, ribbed, whitish, minutely hispidulous or glabrous, turning brown and smooth with age. Rhizome typical. Roots cylindrical, thick. Spines short, hard, straight or slightly curved, present on stems, branches and below cladode fascicles. Cladodes on branches and branchlets, up to 152 cm a fascicle, filiform, up to 35 mm long when mature, fairly equal in length, shorter in some forms. Flowers 1-8, on outside of cladode fascicles; tepals loosely spreading, white; stalks articulated below centre. Stamens with red or orange anthers. Ovary with ±6 ovules in each locule; style short with 3 short, spreading stigmas. Berry ±5 mm in diameter, red, usually pendulous, tipped by the short style.
Erect, spiny shrub, up to 2.5 m high. Stems shallowly zigzagging, ribbed, whitish and minutely hispidulous or glabrous when young, turning brown and smooth with age. Spines short, hard, straight or curved, present on stems, branches and below cladodes fascicles. Cladodes up to 60 per fascicle, filiform, up to 35 mm long at maturity. Flowers 1-8 on outside of cladode fascicles; stamens with red or orange anthers; pedicels articulated below middle. Flowering time Sept.-Jan. Fruit a red berry.
A wiry twining shrub. It grows a few metres high. It is spiny. The stems are woody and hairy and have grooves. The leaves are needle like and in rings along the branches. There are about 60 in a cluster. They are 3.5 cm long and very fine. The flowers are small and white. They have a sweet scent. The fruit are green berries that turn red as they ripen. They contain one seed.
Erect shrub, up to 2.5 m high. Roots thick, terete, not swollen into tubers. Stems white when young, straight, not zigzagging, epidermis not peeling into strips. Spines present below cladode fascicles, short, hard, straight or slightly curved. Cladodes many, filiform, up to 35 mm long. Flowers: tepals white; Oct.-Feb. Fruit a berry.
Erect shrub, up to 2.5 m high. Spines present below cladode fascicles, short, hard, straight or slightly curved. Cladodes tapering to a cuneate base, 12-35 mm long. Flowers white.
