Sicilian Caper

Description

apparis sicula is a species belonging to the genus Capparis in the capris plant and was described by Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau in 1800 in the first volume of the second edition of his Traité des arbres et arbustes. The species was previously generally considered a subspecies or variety of Capparis spinosa or Capparis ovata, but is now given species status after more detailed morphological and molecular phylogenetic studies.