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Arabian boxthorn
Lycium shawii
Lycium shawii, desert thorn or Arabian boxthorn is a species of thorny shrub adapted to desert environments and can be found throughout Arabia and some places in Africa. The thin leaved, rigid bush grows up to three meters high with lots of branches and alternating spines that vary in size and grow along the branches and on their tips. The leaves narrow towards their base. It produces small whitish pink or purple flowers from September until...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 199609.