Paliurus Spina-Christi

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Paliurus Spina-Christi in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Paliurus Spina-Christi, Mill. (P. australis, Gaertn. P. aculea-tus, Lam. Zizyphus Paliurus, Willd. Rhamnus Paliurus, Linn.). Jerusalem Thorn. Christ's Thorn. Spreading, spiny shrub or small tree to 20 ft., sometimes procumbent: branches brown: 1 of the 2 spines at the base of the petioles straight, the other hooked and recurved: lvs. rather slender-petioled, ovate, usually unequal at the rounded base, obtuse, minutely serrulate, glabrous, dark green above, pale or grayish beneath, 3/4- 1 1/2 in. long: fls. in axillary short-peduncled cymes: fr. brownish yellow, about 3/4-1 in. across, glabrous. June, July. S. Eu. to Himalayas and N. China. B.M. 1893; 2535 (as P. virgatus.) G.C. III. 50:377. — This plant is supposed to have furnished the crown of thorns which was placed on the head of Christ before his crucifixion; others think Zizyphus Spina-Christi to be the shrub the crown was made of. These two shrubs resemble each other closely, but the branches are whitish and the frs. berry-like in Zizyphus ; the shape of the spines is exactly the same in both species. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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