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  • COMMON NAME: Blooming bush
  • ARABIC: عصى الجبل، شيم
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Ochradenus aucheri Boiss.
  • SYNONYMS: Homalodiscus aucheri
  • FAMILY: RESEDACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Dubai , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Fodder (F) Landscape (L) Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Gulley Slope (Rocky)
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP). Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production.
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.floraofqatar.com/ochradenus_aucheri.htm Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
Fodder for camels. Honey nectar plants.

Shrub, 90-100 cm high. Stems glabrous, slender, branched from the base, branches whip-like, yellowish when mature. Leaves 1-4.5 cm long, 1-2 mm broad, linear, entire, deciduous. Flowers yellow in dense long spike up to 20 cm long; bracts small, deciduous. Pedicel about 2 mm long, elongated in fruit. Sepals 6, lobes 1-1.5 mm long, ovate, connate bellow. Petals absent or reduced. Disk fleshy, glabrous, surrounding the stamens. Capsule oblong, 7-10 mm long, 6-8 mm wide, erect, 3-notched or open at the apex, pedicel 7-10 mm long. Seeds many, small, smooth, shining, black, curved, about 1 mm long. Flowering from February- June.  

Mostly in foothills and rocky mountain slopes.
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