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Cistus ocymoides
About
Cistus ocymoides, the basil-leaved rock rose, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cistaceae, native to Portugal and Spain in the Iberian Peninsula, and northern Morocco in Northwest Africa. It is an erect evergreen shrub growing to 60 cm (24 in) tall by 100 cm (3 ft) wide, with woolly grey-green leaves and bright yellow flowers in spring. The flowers may have a dark brown blotch at the base of each petal.
- Family
- Cistaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Cistus ocymoides
- Slug
- cistus-ocymoides
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Cistaceae
- Genus
- Cistus
- Species
- ocymoides
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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