Chilian Needle Tree

Chilian Needle Tree (Rhaphithamnus Cyanocarpus) - A shrub or small tree of much beauty, but too tender for any save favoured districts. It is one of the neat, myrtle-like shrubs of S. America, with shining dark green leaves, heart-shaped, and about half an inch long, thickly set upon graceful stems in clusters of three. With these are an equal number of needle-like spines slightly longer than the leaves, and to these the tree owes its name. The stems are covered with soft thick down of a rusty brown color. Narrow tubular flowers of white and mauve appear at the leaf-axils towards the ends of the shoots, which are free of spines.

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