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Plant identification guide.
| Subshrub with numerous coarse, upright, dark green stems. Besides normal stems, plants have tough, spiny, leaf-like shoots – phylloclades. Each phylloclade in the middle has a tiny, whitish, scale-like leaf and a tiny flower ovary of which forms orange red spherical fruit. - (Ruscus
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Stems slender, drooping; stems of young plants may be upright. Leaves inconspicuous, scale-like, whitish. Soft, needle-like or linear, flat stems (phylloclades) grow out of leaf axils. - Asparagus. |
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