Atriplex muelleri       0

This is a spreading to erect herb branching from base, to 30cm high.

The leaves are thin, broadly obovoid, apex rounded, base cuneate and passing into petiole 1/2 length of lamina, in all 15-30 mm long, margin undulate to sinuately lobed, upper surface glabrescent, lower surface scaly.

The male flowers are clustered in terminal axils. The female flowers are in scattered axillary clusters. The fruiting bracteoles are sessile or almost so, bluntly deltoid to circular, swollen, hard, smooth, circa 3mm long and wide at apex, connate except at the rounded apex, valves herbaceous, forming a narrow denticulate margin around apex of bracteole; appendages absent. The seed is circular, radicle lateral, erect.

References
- Flora of Australia. Atriplex muelleri

- Seeds of woody plants in the United States, Schopmeyer Clifford Scharff and others. 1974 pag. 240-243. Address
- eFloras. eFloras.org Vol. 2 pag. 103110. Atriplex
- eFloras. eFloras.org Vol. 1 pag. 103110. Atriplex
- Estudios crìticos sobre la flora de Chile, Reiche, Karl. Anales de la Universidad de Chile 1903. Address
- Flora iberica, Santiago Castroviejo. 2010 Vol. 2 pag. 504-513. ISBN
- Flora of Australia. Atriplex
- Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, P.H. Davies. 1984 Vol. 2 pag. 305-312. ISBN
- Genetic resources of Atriplex, Salsola and Suaeda shrubby species from Canary Islands: a taxonomic survey for agronomic purposes, Mederos, MA Padrón and Guma, IR and Santos-Guerra, A and Reyes-Betancort, JA. Bocconea 2009 Vol. 23 pag. 253. ResearchGate
- Origin and evolution of Atriplex (Amaranthaceae s.l.) in the Americas: Unexpected insights from South American species, Brignone, Nicolás F. and Pozner, Raúl E. and Denham, Silvia S. Taxon 2019 Vol. 68(5) pag. 1021-1036. DOI
- Taxonomy of American Atriplex, Grant Dukelow Brown. The American Midland Naturalist 1956 Vol. 55(1) pag. 199-210. JStor

Annual or Biennial plant
Biological type: shrub
Frost resistance: 19ºF
Leaf color: glaucous
Reproduction mode: variable plant with a variable sexuality

Specifications for the Mediterranean basin
Adult size (h x w): 0,9ft x 0,9ft
Sun exposure: full sun (Sun hours: >6h
Foliage: evergreen
Growth: fast

Specific information for our garden
Planting substrate: Sand
Plant watering: 1x a week pH 6.5
Logical sequence of containers for: Trees; forestry plate 8cm, forestry pot 3L, container 6L, container 55L, container 110L, container 240L
Propagation is done by cuttings

SPRING Sow the seeds at 5mm depth in the Well Drained Seed Sowing Mix at 50°F. During germination keep the substrate moist and in daylight. The seeds germinate in 1-3 weeks.

Germination references
- Germination of Karroo bush seeds, Henrici, Marguerite. South African Journal of Science 1935 Vol. 32(07) pag. 223-234. Address
- Seeds: Ecology, Biogeography, and, Evolution of Dormancy and Germination, Baskin, Carol & Baskin, J.M. 2014 pag. 1-1586. DOI


Germination references for the genus
- Seeds of woody plants in the United States, Schopmeyer Clifford Scharff and others. 1974 pag. 240-243. Address
- USDA Forest Service's Woody Plant Seed Manual, John K. Francis and Craig D.Whitesell. 2008. Address