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  • COMMON NAME: Spiny Zilla
  • ARABIC: سلا
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Zilla spinosa (L.) Prantl
  • SYNONYMS: Z. myagroides Forssk. Bunias spinosa L.
  • FAMILY: BRASSICACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production.
https://www.floraofqatar.com/zilla_spinosa.htm 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. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Honey nectar plants.
Perennial shrub, spiny, glabrous up to 70 cm high. Stems erect, ribbed, dichotomously branched. Basal leaves nearly rosette-forming, often pinnately lobed up to 1.8 cm long; cauline leaves few, small, entire. This plant leafy in spring but soon leafless after drought. Flowers large, short-pedicelled. Sepals 7-9 mm long. Petals 15-20 mm long, pink sometimes white. Fruit a silicle, ovate-globose, about 10 mm in diameter, nearly smooth, tapered into a conical, short, hard, spin-like beak, on a stout pedicel, 2-4 mm long. Flowering from March-April.
Mainly sandy desert plains and sandy gravel in wadis.
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