Bosea cypria

 ( Amaranthaceae ) 

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 Cypriot Greek it is called ζουλατζιά (translit: zoulatzia) The Endemic Plants of Cyprus, Texts: Takis Ch. Tsintides, Photographs: Laizos Kourtellarides, Cyprus Association of Professional Foresters, Bank of Cyprus Group, Nicosia 1998,

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

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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.

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Cultivation It has mostly been planted in hedges.

==Gallery==

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External links

• http://www.treknature.com/gallery/photo281484.htm
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• http://www.natureofcyprus.org/detailinfo.aspx?cid=5&recid=205&rowid=51&rowcount=1&pageindex=10&pagesize=5
• http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2680382
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• http://www.herbaryum.neu.edu.tr/content/resimler/Amaranthaceae/Bosea cypria.JPG

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