Periploca aphylla aphylla

Description

Erect branched shrub c.1.8-3.0 m tall,generally leafless,juice milky.Leaves (when present) 6-7 mm long,ovate-oblong,acute,thick,nerve obscure.Flowers in 1.2-2.5 cm long cymes on thick peduncles,fragrant.Bracts ovate,margin scarious,breaking off about the middle leaving the lower portion.Calyx lobes 2.5 mm long.Corolla greenish outside,dark purple within.Tube very short,lobes 2.2-6 mm long,oblong,obtuse,densely hairy near the tip.Corona lobes c.6 mm long,filiform,glabrous,recurved at the apex.Follicles 5-10 cm x 5-6 mm,rigid woody,widely divergent,pointed.Seeds 6-6.5 mm long,oblong,compres¬sed,coma c.2.5 cm long.