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Putterlickia pyracantha stages of transformation

Putterlickia pyracantha stages of transformation
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  • Pterocarpus rotundifolius subsp. rotundifolius trunk
  • Pterocelastrus echinatus fruit
  • Pterocelastrus tricuspidatus
  • Putterlickia pyracantha
  • Putterlickia pyracantha capsule extended
  • Putterlickia pyracantha capsule half open
  • Putterlickia pyracantha fruit
  • Putterlickia pyracantha inside the capsule
  • Putterlickia pyracantha stages of transformation
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  • Rapanea melanophloeos fruit
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Three stages of the Putterlickia pyracantha fruit are present on this sparsely leaved shrub growing in dune scrub. The youngest on the left is still closed and red, the middle one widely dehisced. A couple of seeds almost covered in pale arils are still attached on the inside of the dry husk. The blackish capsule on the right is probably from earlier in the fruiting season that started in February, its seeds gone and the three spread lobes half-closed again.

Fruits are found on the shrub mainly between the end of summer to the end of winter. The photo was taken in August at Boggomsbaai west of Mossel Bay.

The bark is sometimes red-brown, in picture pale grey. It may be covered in a waxy layer that peels and reveals pale lenticels. The sparsely scattered spines are long, hard, straight and sharply pointed. The spines that become up to 5 cm long sometimes have leaves growing from them (Coates Palgrave, 2002; Van Wyk and Van Wyk, 1997; Pooley, 1993; iSpot).

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Thabo Maphisa
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Ivan Latti
 
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