Zilla spinosa
(Turra) Prantl.
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(Botanical) name: Zilla spinosa (Turra) Prantl. Family: Cruciferae Common
name: Zilla, Silla, Sillet, Besilla, Basilla, Shagaret el-hommoos, Ommo,
Hommoos. Origin:
Egypt Plant
description: CRUCIFERAE A. Juss. Pod short and broad, oblong-rounded.
Pod not or inconspicuously compressed. (For shortly cylindrical pods with
seeds in 2 parallel rows, see under Pod long and narrow, genera 4, 9, 10.).
Pod globose, ovoid or pear-shaped. Pod beaked. Spiny desert shrub with pink
flowers ZILLA Forssk. Spiny desert shrubs with pink or purple flowers. Pod
indehiscent, globose or square, with a long subulate spinescent beak. Pod not
cube-shaped under the spiny style with a deep groove surrounded by a corky
margin on each of the 4 lateral faces. ZILLA
SPINOSA (Turra) Prantl (= ZILLA MYAGROIDES Forssk.) : Blue-green,
dichotomously branched plant with stiff spinescent branches and soon
deciduous fleshy leaves. Plant typically 50-60 cm. high with 8-10 mm. broad
pods. (Frut.). In rocky and sandy places. – In Upper Egypt an annual form of
this species is sometimes met with. v.
microcarpa Dur. & Sch. : 10-20 cm. high, pod smaller. Source:
STUDENTS’ FLORA OF EGYPT second edition, by VIVI TÄCKHOLM, D. Sc. (Stockholm)
Professor of Systematic Botany, Faculty of Science, Cairo University.
Published by Cairo University. Printed by COOPERATIVE PRINTING COMPANY
Beirut, 1974. Propagation:
Fruits (seeds), shrub in Upper Egypt. Last Update
October 21st, 2001 |
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