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Plant identification => Plant identification => Topic started by: MikeHardman on November 14, 2011, 02:42:11 PM

Title: red flowered gorse-like shrub [IDd as Noaea mucronata by JohnJ]
Post by: MikeHardman on November 14, 2011, 02:42:11 PM

This has been in flower for a few weeks now. Most of the year the plant is a blue-grey bush. It is quite common in western Cyprus, but much less so than the other prickly gorse/brooms (loosely speaking), which flower in spring. Some tiny flies seem very attracted to it at some times of the year.

Title: Re: red flowered gorse-like shrub
Post by: John J on November 14, 2011, 05:30:03 PM

Mike, try Noaea mucronata.

Title: Re: red flowered gorse-like shrub
Post by: MikeHardman on November 14, 2011, 10:22:25 PM

That'll do nicely - thank you, John.
I am firmly in 'Division 1', sensu Meikle's Flora of Cyprus.
Meikle gives its distribution as divisions 2, 4-7.
The 'Contributions to the flora of Cyprus I', and the 'Supplementary notes to the flora of Cyprus II-VI' add divisions 3 and 8.
The 'Flora of Cyprus — a dynamic checklist' (http://www.flora-of-cyprus.eu/?q=cdm_dataportal/taxon/778c2b3f-e62d-4e57-ab0d-a461e7200b25) gives divisions 2,4-7. I have dropped Ralf Hand an email.