Evergreen tree, hermaphrodite, up to 15-20 m in height (or taller in more favourable conditions), irregular in appearance, but with a \u00b1 rounded crown and usually a little pendant. Trunk robust, up to 2 m in diameter in old specimens of some oases. Bark greyish, smooth in young branches and deeply fissured longitudinally in the trunk and main branches. Branches extended-erect, sometimes pendulous. Younger branchlets green, very slender. Leaves 2 mm, slightly fleshy, very slender, sessile, glaucous, shaped as a wide, thin, applied ring that embraces the branchlet. Branchlets have the appearance of being articulate and leafless, which makes this species easy to identify within the high variability of this complex genus. Flowers very small, arranged in slender and long racemes (30-60 \u00d7 4-5 mm), which grow directly on young branchlets. Flowers subsessile, pentamerous, with 5 petals elliptic-oblong or ovate-elliptic, white and 5 stamens. Staminal disk hololophic, although sometimes the disk lobes are not well noticeable. Fruit a capsule, relatively small, ovoid (2.5-3.5 mm), which contains minute, numerous seeds, with a tuft of unicellular whitish hairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12078","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n