WorldFloraDB - Exocarpos aphyllus

Characteristics

A shrub. It grows 2-5 m high and spreads 3-5 m across. It has many branches, The small branches are rigid and often end in a spine. The leaves are very small or scale like. The flowers are very small. They are cream and do not have a stalk. They occur in dense spikes or clusters. The fruit is attached to the succulent and edible fruit-like stalk. The fruit are about 0.5 cm across. It is a hairy nut on the end of a green or bright red stalk.

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Shrub to 5 m high, usually grey-green or olive-green. Branchlets usually divaricate, rigid, finely striate or sulcate. Leaves scale-like, appressed, c. 1 mm long, very early caducous. Flowers in axillary, sessile ovoid clusters or spikes 2–4 mm long. Tepals 5, narrowly triangular, 0.5 mm long. Fruiting receptacle depressed-obovoid, 1–2 mm long, red; drupe ovoid, 3 mm long, somewhat ribbed, scurfy-pubescent; tepals persistent.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

shrub

Growth support

parasite

Foliage retention

evergreen

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

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Spread

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Mature width (meter)

3.0 - 5.0

Mature height (meter)

3.0 - 5.0

Root system

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Rooting depth (meter)

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Root diameter (meter)

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Flower color

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Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

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Nitrogen fixer

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Photosynthetic pathway

c3

Environment

It grows in arid and semiarid inland regions in Australia. It can grow near the coast. It grows attached to or in association with other plants. It can be in sandy soils or well drained clays.

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Found in various habitats including coastal dunes, eucalypt woodland and shrubland; growing in rocky loam, clay-loam and calcareous soils. Sandy soils in inland areas in all mainland states.

Absent from wetter regions and the desert; grows in various habitats, including coastal dunes, eucalypt woodland and shrubland in rocky loam, clay-loam and calcareous soils.

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Usage

Uses	animal food bee plant food medicinal
Edible	flowers fruits seeds
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Cultivation

Plants are hard to propagate.

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