A low, creeping evergreen shrub. It grows about 1 m high. It spreads 90 cm wide. The branches are slender and erect. The leaves are like scales. The fruit is oval and succulent. It is pale or bright red when ripe. Fruit are 6-7 mm across.
Life form | perennial | ||||||||||||
Growth form | shrub | ||||||||||||
Growth support | free-standing | ||||||||||||
Foliage retention | evergreen | ||||||||||||
Sexuality | dioecy | ||||||||||||
Pollination | anemogamy | ||||||||||||
Spread | endozoochory | ||||||||||||
Mature width (meter) | 1.0 | ||||||||||||
Mature height (meter) | 1.0 | ||||||||||||
Root system | creeping-root | ||||||||||||
Rooting depth (meter) | - | ||||||||||||
Root diameter (meter) | - | ||||||||||||
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Fruit color | - | ||||||||||||
Fruiting months | - | ||||||||||||
Nitrogen fixer | - | ||||||||||||
Photosynthetic pathway | c3 |
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Uses | erosion control food material medicinal species stabilisation of sandy soils |
Edible | fruits leaves |
Therapeutic use | Alterative (unspecified), Diuretic (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Flu (unspecified), Malaria (unspecified), Nephritis (unspecified), Puerperium (unspecified), Stomachic (unspecified), Sudorific (unspecified), Tonic (unspecified), Asthma (unspecified), Cough (unspecified), Diaphoretic (unspecified), Astringent (unspecified), Collyrium (unspecified), Chest (unspecified), Febrifuge (unspecified), Poison (unspecified), Scabies (unspecified), Syphilis (unspecified), Antitussive (unspecified), Diuretics (unspecified), Expectorants (unspecified) |
Human toxicity | - |
Animal toxicity | - |
Mode | seedlings |
Germination duration (days) | - |
Germination temperacture (C°) | - |
Germination luminosity | - |
Germination treatment | - |
Minimum temperature (C°) | -23 |
Optimum temperature (C°) | - |
Size | - |
Vigor | - |
Productivity | - |
LSID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:383381-1 |
WFO ID | wfo-0000794343 |
COL ID | 6FNF9 |
BDTFX ID | 75107 |
INPN ID | 96101 |
Wikipedia (EN) | Link |
Wikipedia (FR) | Link |