Scientific Name: Enchylaena tomentosa var. glabra

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  • Common Name:
    Ruby Saltbush
  • Type:
    shrub
  • Family:
    CHENOPODIACEAE
  • Flowers:
    small, solitary axillary.
  • Fruit:
    Fruiting perianth red or yellow, drying black
  • Vegetation Type:
    Salt Marsh
  • Species List:
    Batianoff 87,
Cultural Notes

Fruits: edible, sweet; young parts suitable for green vegetable. (Stanley & Ross)

Comments

Occurs in salt marshes along the coast. (Stanley & Ross)

Identification Notes

Stems : long, often procumbent more or less glabrous.||Leaves: sessile, linear, apex acute.||Fruiting perianth: depressed-globose, succulent 5-8 mm dia, slightly beaked laterally, limb cleft to base on one side, tube convex.||