Bosea cypria

Bosea cypria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Family: Amaranthaceae
Genus: Bosea
Species: B. cypria
Binomial name
Bosea cypria
Boiss. ex Hook.f.

Bosea cypria Much branched, evergreen shrub, 1-2 m high, erect, suberect, or hanging on walls, cliffs or trees, with hairless angular shoots. Leaves, opposite, simple, entire-+ elliptical, 2-6 x (1-2-3) cm, hairless, petiolate, dark green, occasionally red green. Flowers in branched spikes, actionomorphic, hermaphrodite or unisexual 5-merous, very small, green brown. Fruit a globose red berry. Flowers from April to July.

Habitat

Rocky limestone banks, cliffs, old walls or gulleys, from sea level to 600 m.

Distribution

Endemic to Cyprus. Akamas (Avakas, Kouphes etc.), Kritou Terra, Peyia, Lysos, Theletra, Mesoyi, Kato Paphos, Pakhyammos, Kourio, the Episkopi Forest, Potamos Liopetriou, Protaras, Dhiorios, Pentadaktylos, Rizokarpaso.

Cultivation

It has mostly been planted in hedges in several parts of the island as in Nicosia, Evrykhou, Katydata, Skouriotissa etc.

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