WorldFloraDB - Periploca aphylla

Characteristics

A shrub. It is erect and branched. It grows 2-3 m tall. It has milky juice. It keeps growing from year to year. The leaves are 6-7 mm long and narrowly oval. The flowers are in 1.2-2.5 long groups. They are on thick stalks. The fruit are rigid and woody and 5-10 cm long by 5-6 mm wide. They are pointed. The seeds are 6 mm long.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	shrub
Growth support	free-standing
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Sexuality	hermaphrodite
Pollination	entomogamy
Spread	anemochory
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Mature height (meter)	1.9 - 3.0
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Environment

It is a Mediterranean plant. It grows in areas with a rainfall between 100-400 mm per year. It can grow in arid places.

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Usage

The flower buds are eaten cooked or raw as a vegetable. The leaves are eaten as a green vegetable. The young stems are chewed. The fresh green fruit are chewed.

Uses	animal food food material medicinal
Edible	flowers fruits leaves stems
Therapeutic use	Cathartics (bark), Purgative (unspecified), Swelling (unspecified), Tumor (unspecified), Appetite stimulants (unspecified), Edema (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Neoplasms (unspecified), Edema (whole plant), Fever (whole plant), Neoplasms (whole plant)
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Cultivation

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