Fleshy Saltbush: Fruit

Class:

Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)

Order:

Betalains (Caryophyllales)

Family:

Goosefoot (Chenopodiaceae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Fleshy Saltbush (Rhagodia crassifolia)

This Photo:

Fruit

Synonym:

Chenopodium wilsonii

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
As with other saltbushes, the fruit of these is a bright red berry.
Unlike E. tomentosa we believe the green fruit is young, ripening to red.

This species is classed as

LC (Least Concern)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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