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Flowers are bisexual, solitary and grow in the angles between the stem and the leaves. It fruits between August and
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is a perennial, bushy glaucous shrub that can grow between 60 cm (24 in) and 1 m (3 ft 3 in) tall. Its leaves are narrow-obovoid to clavate (club-shaped), to 10 mm (0.39 in) long, glabrous (hairless) and apex rounded which can produce pink or reddish tips over time.
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