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Gloveria integrifolia fruit

Gloveria integrifolia fruit
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  • Garuleum bipinnatum flowerhead closed
  • Garuleum bipinnatum leaves
  • Garuleum bipinnatum leaves
  • Garuleum bipinnatum seeds departing
  • Garuleum bipinnatum stems
  • Gloveria integrifolia
  • Gloveria integrifolia buds
  • Gloveria integrifolia flowers
  • Gloveria integrifolia fruit
  • Gloveria integrifolia in full bloom
  • Glumicalyx montanus
  • Gomphostigma virgatum
  • Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum
  • Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum capsule
  • Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum capsule husk
  • Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum epicalyx
  • Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum flower

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The fruit of Gloveria integrifolia seen in the photo is a three-lobed capsule; red in colour and obconical to globose in shape. It becomes about 5 mm in diameter, bursting open when ripe. The narrow petals are still present at the back of the fruit on this specimen. Fruits are found on the plant in summer or early autumn. The fruit contains dark brown seeds covered fully by a pinkish aril, of interest to hungry birds that serve to do the seed dispersal.

The many branches often turn downwards and carry many small side-branches and spur-branchlets. Scattered, robust spines, often with leaf fascicles and dwarf spur-branchlets growing on them, are easy to see, important to avoid. These spines become 8 cm long and are grey on older wood (Coates Palgrave, 2002; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2010).

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