🌿 Family

Nitrariaceae

3 species · Plants

Plantae › Tracheophyta › Magnoliopsida › Sapindales › Nitrariaceae

Nitraria billardierei is a perennial Australian nitre/dillon bush with edible salty grape-like fruits spread by emus.

Nitraria retusa is a salt-tolerant desert shrub used for food, fodder, fuel, and soil stabilization.

Nitraria schoberi is an Irano-Turanian flowering nitrebush with edible fruit consumed by people since the Epipalaeolithic.

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Rutaceae 192 species Sapindaceae 133 species Anacardiaceae 89 species Meliaceae 40 species Burseraceae 19 species Simaroubaceae 10 species Tetradiclidaceae 2 species

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