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Caper Bush

Capparis sinaica

Description:

These caper flowers are completely white when they open at night and turn pinkish-purple throughout the following day.

Habitat:

spotted in a coastal desert wadi

Notes:

Local Bedouin collect and pickle the fruit for eating and use the leaves medicinally.

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Bernadette S
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Bernadette S

Egypt

Spotted on May 3, 2013
Submitted on May 10, 2013

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