WorldFloraDB - Capparis loranthifolia

Characteristics

Shrub or tree to 8 m high, hairy with simple hairs. Spines straight, spreading, to 7 mm long, absent on adult shoots. Leaves elliptic to obovate, sometimes spathulate, rounded to acute, 4–8 cm long, 8–18 mm wide, glabrous, dull; base acute to tapering to petiole; midrib flat above, somewhat raised beneath; veins 5–8 pairs; petiole 4–20 mm long. Inflorescence 1–5-flowered, corymbose. Sepals c. 12–13 mm long, outer pair puberulous outside; inner pair woolly inside. Petals c. 1.8 cm long, hairy at base, cream. Stamens 35–50. Gynophore 2.2–9 cm long, glabrous; ovary ellipsoidal, c. 4 mm long, glabrous, placentas 4. Fruit globose 2.5–6 mm wide; pericarp smooth, netted or tuberculate. Seeds numerous; axis through attachment 7–8 mm long.

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A tall shrub. The bark is dark grey and deeply cracked. The stems are thorny. The leaves are 2-4 cm long by 0.8-1.5 cm wide. They are sword shaped and thick and leathery. They are dark green. The flowers are in clusters of 1-5 at the ends of branches. The flowers are 2.5 cm across. They are white. They have many spreading stamens. The fruit is a berry with is 2-4 cm across. It is yellowish and mostly smooth.

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It grows in subtropical locations. It occurs in inland Queensland and New South Wales in Australia.

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The fruit are eaten.

Uses	animal food food
Edible	fruits
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Plants can be grown from fresh seed or cuttings.

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