Description
The Grayia spinosa shrub is dioecious, with male individuals flowering in clumps of a few flowers surrounded by leaflike bracts, and female individuals producing inflorescences of bright pink, yellow, or white fruiting bracts surrounding tiny petalless pistillate flowers. Female inflorescences are much larger than male and make the plant one of the more colorful shrubs in the springtime habitat. The fruit is a utricle only a few millimeters wide.
The shrub sheds its leaves and flowers by the summer in hot or dry areas and becomes a woody gray thicket; it is evergreen in some regions. The genus was named after the botanist Asa Gray.
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