Bosea cypria
# Bosea cypria

Bosea cypria is a species of flowering plant in the Amaranthaceae family. It is a highly branched, evergreen shrub, 1–2 m high, erect, suberect, or hanging on walls, cliffs or trees, with hairless angular shoots. Leaves, opposite, simple, entire-+ elliptical, 2-6 x (1-2-3) cm, hairless, petiolate, dark green, occasionally red green. Flowers in branched spikes, hermaphrodite or unisexual 5-merous, very small, green brown, the floral symmetry is actinomorphic. The fruit is a globose red berry. Flowers from April to July. It is endemic to Cyprus and in the local Greek Cypriot dialect it is called ζουλατζιά (translit: zoulatzia)

## Habitat

It grows on rocky limestone banks, cliffs, old walls or gulleys, from sea level to 600 m.

## Distribution

Endemic to Cyprus. Akamas (Avakas, Kouphes etc.), Kritou Terra, Peyia, Lysos, Theletra, Mesoyi, Kato Paphos, Pakhyammos, Episkopi, Limassol, Potamos Liopetriou, Protaras, Dhiorios, Pentadaktylos, Rizokarpaso.

## Cultivation

It has mostly been planted in hedges.

## Gallery

* Bosea cypria in Akamas Botanical Garden, Cyprus
* Branch
* Seeds of Bosea cypria
* Bosea cypria seedling
* Stem, branches and bark
