Osyris compressa
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Osyris compressa is a species of plant in the sandalwood family from Mozambique and South Africa .
description
Osyris compressa grows as an evergreen and richly branched shrub up to about 5 meters high. The trunk can be up to 25 centimeters thick.
The simple, alternate, closely standing and short-stalked, stiff, leathery, thick leaves are mostly opposite. The short petiole is up to 4 millimeters long. The entire, bald and pointy or bespitzten to stachelspitzigen, ovate to elliptic, lance-shaped or inverted-egg-shaped, glauken some "tired" leaves are long and up 2-2.5 centimeters wide and 4.5 to 5 centimeters.
It is formed terminal or axillary panicles with dense, golden flower groups at the branch ends. The very small, yellow-green and usually four-fold, hermaphrodite, short-stalked flowers have a simple flower envelope , the sepals are missing. The very small flower cup is inverted-conical with a slightly wavy edge, the very small petals are triangular and 1.6-1.7 millimeters long, with a minimally hammered tip. There are usually 4 very short, almost sessile stamens with stamen bearded at the base. The unilocular ovary is inferior with very short, dicklichem pen split scar with spherical segments. There is a fleshy and square discus .
There are small, red later black and blue to black, to about 10-15 millimeters wide and rounded up upside-egg-shaped, smooth, fleshy, one-seeded drupes ( false fruit ) with small Blütenbecher- and discus residues formed.
use
The fruits are edible.
The bark and fresh leaves can be used for tanning.
Aromatic oils are made from the bark, wood , seeds and roots.
The fragrant, hard wood is used for carving and incense .
literature
- J. Kuijt, B. Hansen: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. XII: Flowering Plants Eudicots , Springer, 2015, ISBN 978-3-319-09295-9 , p. 159 f.
Web links
- Osyris compressa at Useful Tropical Plants.
- as Colpoon compressum at Phytoimages.
- Osyris compressa at KEWScience (description and illustration).