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F. lycioides
- Tube color : pink
- Sepal color : pink or pale purple
- Corolla color : pink or pale purple
- Flower : single
- Habitus : upright
Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel :
- Ovary :
- Tube color : pink
- Tube shape :
- Tube dimensions : 3-10mm long
- Sepal color upper : pink or pale purple
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- Sepal tips : reflexed
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- Corolla opening color : pink or pale purple
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- Nectary : nectaries lobed, band-type
- Stamens : stamens in two unequal series, pollen yellow, tri-aperturate, viscin threads smooth
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- Stigma : quadrilobed
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flowers : axillary, solitary, divergent,
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- Seed : 14-30 per berry
- Habit : shrub
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- Remarks : often forms interspecific hybrids with Fuchsia magellanica at the northern edge of the latters range
- Named : because of similarities with another plant Lycium afrum
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- Year (of first description) : 1800
- Botanist : Andrews Henry C.
- Authors : Andrews 1800 & 1807. Atsatt & Rundel 1982. Berry 1989
- Original publication : Nov. Gen. Sp. 6: 106 1823
- Habitat : xerophyte restricted to a narrow coastal belt in the Mediterranean-climate zone of central Chile
- Elevation : 5-450
- Native country : Chilé
- Synonyms : F. rosea, Ruiz & Pavon 1802, F. parviflora, Lindley 1827, F. spinosa, Presl 1835, F. rosea var. spinosa, Reiche 1898
- Gametic chromosome number n = 22
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : small, alternate leaves are deciduous leaving their spinose bases behind after dropping away
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