Thursday, January 26, 2012

Coastal plant with fleshy divided leaves with clusters of greenish white flowers s??p????

Could be Samphire

Coastal plant with fleshy divided leaves with clusters of greenish white flowers s??p????
SOAPWORT or BOUNCING BELL. It has large divided leaves a perennial producing flowering stems 1 to 3 feet high from a creeping rhizome . The leaves are opposite strongly ribbed and not hairy. The scented flowers which are pinkish white and which have only 2 styles are visited bt hawk-moths. It is fairly common near villages and streamsides,and the leaves at one time were used to make soap. They flower from July-September.


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