Bosea cypria

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, hermaphrodite or unisexual 5-merous, very small, green brown, the floral symmetry is actionomorphic. The fruit is a globose red berry. Flowers from April to July. It is endemic to Cyprus and in the local Greek Cypriot dialect it is called ζουλατζιά (translit: zoulatzia)[1]

Bosea cypria
Bosea cypria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Genus: Bosea
Species:
B. cypria
Binomial name
Bosea cypria

Habitat

It grows on 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, Episkopi, Limassol, Potamos Liopetriou, Protaras, Dhiorios, Pentadaktylos, Rizokarpaso.

Cultivation

It has mostly been planted in hedges.

  • Bosea cypria in Akamas Botanical Garden, Cyprus
  • Branch
  • Seeds of Bosea cypria.
  • Bosea cypria seedling.
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References
  1. The Endemic Plants of Cyprus, Texts: Takis Ch. Tsintides, Photographs: Laizos Kourtellarides, Cyprus Association of Professional Foresters, Bank of Cyprus Group, Nicosia 1998, ISBN 9963-42-067-2
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