Prickly honeypots

Description

Erect, much-branched shrub to 100 cm high, with young branches pale-grey or grey-brown and older stems grey. Leaves spreading or reflexed, broadly lanceolate, to 11 mm long and 2.5 mm wide, mucronate, flat to convex; glabrous, or scabrous above towards base, lower surface paler with unbranched subparallel veins separated by narrow, deep grooves. Flowers in a spike with 4-10 green, or green with maroon-tinged flowers growing on previous season's or older wood. Flowering between August and October.