Plant of the Day

Saturday 4 July 2020

Flowering in a woodland glade at Cambridge Botanic Garden and creating a yellow splash of colour was Paliurus spina-christi (Christ's thorn, garland thorn, Jerusalem thorn). A native to the Mediterranean region from Morocco and Spain, east to Iran and Tajikistan and central Asia. After the yellow flowers this very spiny, deciduous shrub or small tree has disc-shaped, seed-heads in the autumn. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine.

Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens A multi stemmed small shrub or tree that produces yellow flowers. Its branches are known to be crooked or twisted with sharp thorns. Yellow flowers on the Jerusalem Thorn Twisted and crooked branches Descriptive marker at the Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens Sending smiles your way 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂Alice DeForest #twisted Today’s Prompt: Twisted Click to share on…