Muraltia spinosa (L.) F.Forest & J.C.Manning

Species

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Characteristics

Shrub or dwarf shrub, 0.1-1.5 m high, with branches short or slightly elongated, robust, conspicuously spine-tipped, lateral branches modified into spines. Bark greyish green to rusty brown and shallowly furrowed. Leaves alternate, small, glabrous, oblong, linear or elliptical, spine-tipped and in variable abundance. Flowers solitary in axils, purplish or pink and white. Flowering time June, July. Fruit red or orange and fleshy to yellow and leathery.
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A rounded shrub with thorns. It grows 1 m tall. The side branches are short and thorny. The leaves are oblong and with short leaf stalks. The flowers occur singly in the axils of the leaves. They are purple, pink and white. The fruit are red or orange and fleshy.
Rounded, thorny shrub, up to 1 m tall, lateral branchlets short and pungent. Leaves subsessile, oblong, 5-10 mm long. Flowers solitary in axils, purplish or pink and white. Fruit red or orange and fleshy to yellow and leathery.
Rounded, thorny shrub to 1 m, lateral branchlets short and pungent. Leaves oblong, subsessile. Flowers solitary in axils, purplish or pink and white. Fruits red or orange and fleshy or yellow and leathery.
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.0
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Environment

It is a subtropical plant. It grows on sandy flats.
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Soil texture 4-7
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

The ripe fruit are eaten.
Uses food material medicinal
Edible fruits
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Distribution

Muraltia spinosa world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77107904-1
WFO ID wfo-0000746800
COL ID 44LGT
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Synonyms

Nylandtia spinosa Mundia spinosa Polygala spinosa Ulex capensis Muraltia spinosa