WorldFloraDB - Nitraria sibirica

Characteristics

Shrubs 0.5-1.5 m tall, prostrate, arched, or rarely erect. Young branches white, sterile branches spiny at apex. Leaves in fascicles of 4-6 on current year branchlets; leaf blade oblanceolate, 6-15 × 2-5 mm, glabrous or pubescent when young, base cuneate, apex acute to obtuse. Cymes 1-3 cm, pubescent. Sepals 5, green. Petals yellowish green to nearly white, oblong, 2-3 mm. Fruit dark red, ellipsoid to spherical, 6-8 mm in diam., both ends obtuse; mesocarp dark blue to purplish. Stone ovoid, 4-5 mm, apex acute. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jul-Aug. 2n = 24, 60.

More

A low spiny bush. It is grey-white. The leaves are simple and in clusters of 2 or 3. They are fleshy and broadly sword shaped or spoon shaped. They are 2-3 cm long and 3-6 mm wide. The flowers are small and greenish-yellow. They are in groups at the ends of branches. The fruit are pea sized and red turning black when ripe. They are sour.

Life form

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Growth form

shrub

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

deciduous

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

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Spread

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Mature width (meter)

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Mature height (meter)

0.75 - 1.25

Root system

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Rooting depth (meter)

4.5

Root diameter (meter)

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Flower color

Blooming months

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

Fruit color

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Fruiting months

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

Nitrogen fixer

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Photosynthetic pathway

c3

Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows in sandy areas and salty area in oases and near lakes in northern China below 3,700 m above sea level.

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Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

It is used to make a drink.

Uses	animal food environmental use food food additive medicinal
Edible	fruits
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Cultivation

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Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:873344-1
WFO ID	wfo-0001146398
COL ID	47JVP
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	-
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Nitraria sibirica Nitraria schoberi var. sibirica

Lower taxons

Nitraria sibirica var. globicarpa

WorldFloraDB 2024

Nitraria sibirica Pall.

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Nitrariaceae > Nitraria