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Atriplex halimus
English: Sea orache Perennial shrub, 2 to 3 meters high.
Spanish: Orgaza They live in loamy, gypsiferous soils, somewhat sandy
with a certain humidity and rich in nitrogen.
This plant is often cultivated as forage because
tolerating severe conditions of drought, and it can
grow up in very alkaline and saline soils
Leaves
Flowers
Monoecious and anemophilic pollination flowers,
yellowish-greenish color, little showy,
pentamers and grouped in dense clusters with
spike shape. It blooms in summer and
depending on the latitude it does it in July or
at the end of summer in points of Spain.
White
and
alternating
Fruit
wrinkled,
arrangement,
ovate-lanceolate,
with
a
rhombus shape, an entire
border
and
undulating.
somewhat
It has monosperm fruits,
of type achene, provided
with a white-pink
membranous wing.