African Boxthorn
Ripe Red Fruit
Shrubby Twinleaf
Drying (yellow)
| African Boxthorn Ripe Red Fruit | | Shrubby Twinleaf Drying (yellow) | | ||
 | Class: | Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) - Shrubs & Bushes iNaturalist Observation | |||
| Order: | Creosote Bushes (Zygophyllales) | ||||
| Family: | Caltrop (Zygophyllaceae) | ||||
| Species: | Shrubby Twinleaf (Roepera aurantiaca) | ||||
| This Photo: | Flowering | ||||
| Synonym: | Zygophyllum aurantiacum | ||||
| Other names: | Biarpiti or Native Hop | ||||
General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Riverland and elsewhere A hardy plant that has beautiful yellow flowers, with 4 petals. Twinleaf refers to the fact the leaves always branch off, in the middle, into 2 leaflets. Leaves are dark green and succulent, but much more cylindrical than the pointed twinleaf. It has large, winged, pale green fruit. Biarpiti grub (Endoxyla biarpiti) larvae feed on the roots of this plant. The aboriginal name of this plant is Biarpiti, ergo Biarpiti grubs. | |||||
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