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Limoniastrum monopetalum (Limoniastrum monopetalum)

Description

Evergreen shrub hermaphrodite up to 2 m tall, very ramoso, of irregular, whitish bearing. Stems erect. Branches more or less erect. Grayish bark The young green or reddish twigs, but always covered in a greater or lesser degree of white granites (deposits of carbonates ), which gives them a whitish-ashen appearance. Leaves from obovate-lanceolate to obovate-spatulate, first narrow towards the base and then widen forming a kind of pod that surrounds the stem, a little fleshy, with the entire margin, filled with alternating calcareous deposits. flowersin spiciform racemose inflorescences, without leaves. Calyx tubular, not angled, about 9 mm, with 5 very short sharp teeth, reddish. Corolla (10-20 mm diameter), very showy bright pink or purple, with petals soldiers in the lower half in one piece; lobes free wide, obovate, open: In the center there are 5 stamens soldiers for their filaments corolla tube; yellow anthers The fruit is tiny, long oval, membranous, located inside the persistent chalice. It blooms in spring, summer and autumn. Fruits in summer, autumn and winter.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum:

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Caryophyllales

            • Family: Plumbaginaceae

              • Genus: Limoniastrum