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Rigid, erect, thorny shrub, up to 1.2 m tall, stems zigzagged, bark glossy, dark purplish brown. Leaves succulent, in small clusters, narrowly elliptic to obovate, 10-15 mm long, greyish blue-green. Flowers bisexual, broadly trumpet-shaped, 4-5 mm long, white with purple veins, sweet-smelling, lobes pale lilac, reflexed, as long as tube, calyx ± as long as corolla tube. Berries red, spherical, 4 mm diam. Sept.-Oct. and Jan.-Apr.
Shrub, up to 2 m high, stems zigzag, bark purplish brown and glossy. Leaves narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, 10-15 mm long, glaucous, glabrous. Flowers bisexual; calyx 3-4 mm long; corolla 4-5 mm long; nectary red, inconspicuous. Fruit globose, red berry. Flowering time Sept., Oct., Jan.-Apr.
Stiffly branched, thorny shrub to 1.2 m. Leaves in tufts on short shoots, succulent, obovate, 10-15 x 1-2 mm. Flowers bisexual, bell-shaped, white and purple, tube 3-5 mm long with petals 3-4 mm long, stamens inserted just below mouth of tube, well exserted. Berries ± 4 mm diam., red.
