Rhamnus oleoides

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Olive-leaved Buckthorn

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Rhamnus oleoides
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What to Eat

Edible parts: Fruit

The fruit are edible.

Where to Find It

It is a temperate plant.

Africa, Algeria, Crete, Egypt, France, Greece, Iran, Malta, Mediterranean, Morocco, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Sicily, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Türkiye,

Countries: Albania, Angola, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Congo (DRC), Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cyprus, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Spain, Ethiopia, France, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Greece, Guinea-Bissau, Croatia, Israel, Iran, Italy, Kenya, Comoros, Lebanon, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Monaco, Montenegro, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Malta, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sudan, Slovenia, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome & Principe, Syria, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe

How to Identify

A temperate shrub of the Rhamnaceae family, commonly called Olive-leaved Buckthorn.

Wikipedia

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Rhamnus oleoides, known as the olive buckthorn, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae, native from the Mediterranean to the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.

Names & Synonyms

Top cehri

Rhamnus amygdalina Desf.Rhamnus buxifolia Poir.Rhamnus cuneifolia Poir.Rhamnus lycioides subsp. I (L.) Jahand. & Maireand others
References (1)
  • Ertug, F, Yenen Bitkiler. Resimli Türkiye Florası -I- Flora of Turkey - Ethnobotany supplement (As Rhamnus lycioides subsp. oleoides)

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