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Elaeagnus pungens,
an evergreen shrub that inhabits seashores or coastal areas' forest
edges, grows to 2-3 meters in height. Branches are solid and hard to
break, young ones cover themselves with brown lepidic hairs, and
branchlets often change into 5-1.5mm-long prickles. Axils generate
pale yellow-brown flowers; calyx tubes are 4-7mm long, with four
ridges, and form pinched-in portions and lead to the ovaries. The
outsides of the flowers have dense, scaly hairs and brown ones, and
the sepals are ovate-like and triangular. Bloom time:
October-November. |