{"id":42990,"date":"2021-12-02T17:41:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T17:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/especies\/salsola-tetragona-delile\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:25:27","slug":"salsola-tetragona-delile","status":"publish","type":"species","link":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/species\/salsola-tetragona-delile\/","title":{"rendered":"Salsola tetragona Delile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evergreen subshrub up to 50(100) cm in high, yellowish gray, highly branched from the base. Axillary branches and twigs pubescent, with appressed hairs, approximately 0.3 mm, somewhat longer at the insertion of the leaves. Squamiform opposite leaves, very intertwined, so much so that the young twigs are not visible, to which they give a clearly tetragonal appearance, fleshy, obtuse, villous, 2-2.5 x 1.5 mm, a little coriaceous, with very short and applied hairs. Flowers solitary, hermaphrodite, arranged in the axilla of the upper leaves, provided with 2 bracteoles. Perianth with 5 sepals, 5 stamens and bifid style of subulate stigmas. The fruit is an achene surrounded by an acrescent-hardened perianth with sepals welded to the base, forming a crown 6-8 mm in diameter, purple or yellowish. 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