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Zygophyllum fabago (Syrian beancaper)

Synonyms: Zygophyllum fabago dolichocarpum; Zygophyllum fabago orientale; Zygophyllum fabago var. brachycarpum

Wikipedia Abstract

Zygophyllum fabago is a species of plant known by the common name Syrian bean-caper. It is considered a noxious weed of economic importance in many of the western United States. It is native to Asia and East Europe (Russia and Ukraine) and Southeast Europe (Romania).
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Infraspecies

Zygophyllum fabago dolichocarpum
Zygophyllum fabago fabago (Syrian beancaper)
Zygophyllum fabago orientale

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Dioecious
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [2]  Herb
Height [1]  3.936 feet (1.2 m)
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Chernye Zemli Biosphere Reserve Zapovednik IV 621951 Russia  

Predators

Drosicha turkestanica[3]
Eriococcus zygophylli[3]
Heliococcus destructor[3]
Heliococcus montanus[3]
Hypermnestra helios (Desert Apollo)[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 4HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0