5 Periploca aphylla Seeds, Leafless Silkflower Shrub

Leafless Silkflower Shrub is an erect branched shrub about 1.8-3.0 m tall, generally leafless, juice milky. Leaves, when present, are 6-7 mm long, ovate-oblong, pointed, thick, nerve obscure. Flowers are borne in 1.2-2.5 cm long cymes on thick flower-cluster-stalks, fragrant. Flowers are greenish outside, dark purple within. Tube very short, petals 2.2-6 mm long, oblong, blunt, densely hairy near the tip.