Atriplex suberecta       0

This is an annual or perennial herb, sub-woody at the base, forming a bushy growth up to 75cm tall, more or less scaly with diaphanous swollen-based hairs (which become scale like in dried specimens). The branches are decumbent erect, up to 1m long.

The leaves are very variable in size, shape and dentation, oblong, ovate or rhomboidal, cuneate into a short petiole, coarsely and irregularly sinuate-dentate or lobed, 1-5cm long, 0.5-3.5cm broad, more or less mealy pubescent on upper surface and scaly on lower surface.

The flowers are monoecious, in glomerules, the males, with a few females at the base, aggregated in the axils of the upper leaves and the females in the axils of the lower leaves. The male flowers are pale green with a dark green keel (not seen on dried specimens) or occasionally suffused with red (red may be present in some flowers on the same plant). The perianth tube is short, lobes usually 5, about 1.5mm long, cucullate. There are usually 5 stamens, opposite the perianth segments, filaments linear in dried specimens, terete and turgid in fresh, united at the base about 1mm long. The anthers are attached near the apex, the cells free below. The rudimentary ovary is present in the base of the perianth tube. The female flowers are bi-bracteate. The bracts are flat, enclosing the ovule to above the middle, cuneate below and with a stipe-like base which becomes solid and swollen as the fruit matures. The apical lobes are with a large central deltoid tooth and with 1 or more smaller teeth on each side, pubescent with diaphanous swollen hairs, 3-nerved from the base, nerves disappearing as the fruit matures and the swelling which starts at the stipe-like base spreads upwards.

The ovary is compressed globose with a membranous pericarp. There are 2 styles. There is 1 ovule, testa crustaceous. The mature fruit is enclosed in the persistent bracts, sub-globose, compressed, becoming swollen and indurated from the stipe-like base until all but the deltoid apex of the bracts becomes smooth and somewhat bone-like, usually 3.5mm long and 3mm broad. The seed is compressed globose, brown, shiny.

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Annual or Biennial plant
Biological type: plant
Frost resistance: 19ºF
Leaf color: glaucous
Flower color: dark green
Reproduction mode: variable plant with a variable sexuality
Estimated lifespan: ± 8 years

Specifications for the Mediterranean basin
Adult size (h x w): 1,6ft x 1,6ft
Sun exposure: full sun (Sun hours: >6h
Foliage: evergreen
Growth: fast
Flowering time from May until May

Specific information for our garden
Planting substrate: 30%Compost+30%Coco+40%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

Groupe : AT10 Great Fish Noorsveld. MAP 360mm-500mm APCV 32% MAT 64ºF MFD 2 day MAPE 1659 mm MASMS 78% Alt 100m-500m
Groupe : AZi10 Highveld Salt Pans. MAP 275mm-654mm APCV 33% MAT 62ºF MFD 36 day MAPE 2551 mm Alt 1000m-1600m
Groupe : SKv06 Koedoesberge-Moordenaars Karoo. MAP 206mm MAT 60ºF MFD 30 day MAPE 2425 mm MASMS 80% Alt 500m-1250m

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 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