Red Spike Thorn is a stout, very thorny shrub up to 2 meters high, with intricate branches.
The leaves are alternate and evergreen, contour-oval or diamond-shaped
oblong, whole or toothed. The leaves of young plants a bronze, appreciated
for their ornamental purpose. Flowers in axillary branched cymes. The fruits
are large capsules, globe-shaped
with two cavities in its interior where we find the seeds of brown,
introducing a small fleshy ring around the base.
Identification credit: Prashant Awale
Photographed at Nimgiri, Maharashtra & Point Calimere, Tamil Nadu.
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