Please Open The Website From Desktop

Close
  • COMMON NAME: Hop bush
  • ARABIC: مشراس، شحص
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Dodonaea viscosa Jacq.
  • SYNONYMS: Dodonaea angustifolia
  • FAMILY: SAPINDACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Landscape (L) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Wadi Slope Gulley
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. https://landscapeplants.oregonstate.edu/plants/dodonaea-viscosa V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency(ERWDA), Abu Dhabi, 2003.
Highly salt tolerant, widely used in landscaping and reclamation of salty soils. wood is used in many handcrafts. The plant has many folk medicines uses. Poultice of fruits and leaves applied as treatment for sore muscles. Leaves are used for treating toothache. Ornamental plant.
Compact evergreen, much-branched, viscid shrub, up to 2 meter high with smooth, angular branches. Leaves simple, glabrous, glossy, viscid, oblong or elliptic, entire, obtuse, with clear midrib and veins, 2-10cm long and 0.5-2cm broad. Flowers greenish-yellow, in terminal and axillary clusters. Sepals 4, ovate, united at the base. Stamens 6-10, free. Fruit 2-4 valved, capsule, 1-2cm long, flat, orbicular to obcordate, deeply emarginate, with 3 broad membranous wings. Seeds sub-globose, small black. Flowering from February to April.
Wadis, wadi banks, hillsides.
1 / 3
2 / 3
3 / 3