She demonstrates how a prickly shrub called Oplopanax horridus, or devil's club, can be used to treat a wide range of ailments, from coughs and colds to stomach ulcers.
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This prickly shrub is useful as a screen to inhibit animal and human access to areas.
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Grevillea biternata is a shrub in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a small prickly shrub with white or yellowish flowers.
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Lepidagathis cuspidata is a species of plant in the family Acanthaceae. It is native to India, and is a prickly shrub growing profusely on hilly terrain.
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Rosa hemisphaerica is a prickly shrub that grows to about high with grey-green leaves of five to seven leaflets. The hips are orange. It blooms only in the spring.
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Eremophila viscimarginata is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a small, erect, prickly shrub with hairy stems, small leaves, greenish-pink sepals and mauve petals.
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Hakea kippistiana is a shrub in the family Proteacea and endemic to Western Australia. It is a dense prickly shrub with sharp needle-shaped leaves with fragrant white, cream or pink flowers from November to February.
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Boronia acanthoclada is a plant in the citrus family, Rutaceae and is endemic to a small area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, prickly shrub with small leaves and white, four-petalled flowers.
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Moullava digyna, the Teri pod, is a plant species in the genus Moullava. A large scandant sparingly prickly shrub. Branches glabrous or slightly downy, pinnae 5–9 pair. Leaflets obtuse, pale beneath, 8–10 pairs, 6–12 mm long.
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Melaleuca halophila is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a prickly shrub, similar to Melaleuca thapsina but its flowers are white and the leaves are shorter and hairier.
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Leuenbergeria bleo, formerly Pereskia bleo, (rose cactus, leaf cactus) is a leafy cactus, native to the shady, moist forests of Central America, that grows to a woody, prickly shrub about 2 m tall with large, orange flowers resembling rose blossoms.
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Isopogon ceratophyllus is a prickly shrub, growing to 15–100 cm (6–40 in) tall and to 120 cm (4 ft) across. The oval to round flower heads, known as inflorescences, appear between July and January, and are around 3 cm in diameter.
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The divaricate, spreading and prickly shrub typically grows to a height of . It blooms from June to October and produces yellow flowers. The shrub has slender, spinescent, pruinose branchlets. The majority of older phyllodes are shed giving it an open twiggy appearance.
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Hakea gilbertii is a shrub in the family Proteacea and is endemic to an area in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. It is an upright, prickly shrub with greyish needle-shaped leaves and clusters of fragrant flowers from late winter to spring.
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Hakea cristata foliage Hakea cristata inflorescence Hakea cristata, commonly known as the snail hakea, is a shrub in the family Proteaceae native to Western Australia. An ornamental prickly shrub with attractive foliage and creamy white rounded flowers appearing in profusion in the winter months.
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Hakea newbeyana is a shrub in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to an area in the southern Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia. It is a prickly shrub with smooth grey bark and sweetly scented cream-yellow flowers in profusion in spring.
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The erect slender and prickly shrub typically grows to a height of The large evergreen foliage of the plant is similar to that of the holly tree. The species has purple or blue flowers that appear between May and October in its native range.
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Hakea varia, commonly known as the variable-leaved hakea, is a shrub of the family Proteacea and endemic to Wheatbelt, South West, Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia. It is a dense prickly shrub with creamy-white or yellow flowers and variable shaped leaves.
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Hakea varia is a widespread species growing from north of Perth around the coast to Augusta and Esperance. Prefers winter wet situations on sand, clay, loam and gravel. A frost tolerant species favouring a sunny or shady aspect. A dense prickly shrub good for wildlife habitat.
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Monotoca scoparia is commonly used in gardens. Best results for the prickly shrub occur when established in gardens, located in well drained positions with full sun to semi-shade. Establishment will occur under existing trees. Monotoca scoparia is often used in gardens for hedging and regulating traffic.
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Acacia unifissilis is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae. It is native to an area in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. The erect prickly shrub typically grows to a height of . It blooms from July to September and produces yellow flowers.
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Melaleuca spectabilis is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It was formerly known as a subspecies of Melaleuca longistaminea. It is a low, prickly shrub with yellow or lime-green flowers in spring and early summer.
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Acacia stipulosa is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves. It is native to an area in the Northern Territory and Kimberley region of Western Australia. The viscid prickly shrub typically grows to a height of . It blooms in July and produces yellow flowers.
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Acrotriche divaricata is a prickly shrub native to southern Australia, growing to 2 metres tall. Often found in sheltered sites, near rainforest or in eucalyptus forest. Mostly seen growing south of Newcastle, New South Wales. The specific epithet divaricata, refers to the plant's form, being straggling and much branched.
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Acacia truculenta is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae. It is native to a small area in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. The spreading prickly shrub typically grows to a height of . It blooms from August to September and produces yellow flowers.
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Hakea pulvinifera is a small, prickly shrub in the family Proteaceae, found only on one rocky hillside near Gunnedah in New South Wales, Australia. The species was first described in 1962, believed extinct in 1971 and rediscovered in 1988. The entire species may be of only one genetically unique individual.
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Allocasuarina pinaster, commonly known as the compass bush, is a shrub of the genus Allocasuarina native to a small area in the southern Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. The dioecious prickly shrub resembles a pine tree which typically grows to a height of . It is found in gravelly lateritic soils.
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Hakea teretifolia is a prickly shrub that can reach 3 m (10 ft) in height. It has spirally arranged, thick, tough, succulent spike-tipped leaves. Flowering occurs in summer though some may be seen in winter. The small white inflorescences occur on branches and consist of 4-8 individual small flowers.
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The rigid spreading prickly shrub typically grows to a height of . It has striated branches that have a powdery white coating between the ribs. The branches divide down to many short, spinescent, aphyllous branchlets. The flat, linear and erect phyllodes have a length of and a width of and a raised midrib.
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The rounded and prickly shrub typically grows to a height of . It has spiny glabrous branchlets with caducous stipules. The pungent, rigid and green phyllodes are patent to ascending The phyllodes has a length of and a width of around with an indistinct midrib. It blooms from June to September and produces yellow flowers.
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Melaleuca cardiophylla, commonly known as tangling melaleuca or umbrella bush is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the west and south-west of Western Australia. It is a dense, prickly shrub with heart- shaped leaves, stamens that are joined in unusually long claw-like bundles, and distinctive, warty fruits.
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Rubus reflexus is a Chinese species of brambles in the rose family. It has been found only in China (Provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Taiwan, Yunnan, and Zhejiang). Rubus reflexus is a prickly shrub up to 2 meters (80 inches) tall. Leaves are simple (not compound), palmately lobed, covered with hairs.
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The bushy and prickly shrub typically grows to a height of with an erect or decumbent habit. The branchlets are terete with fine ridges and light to densely hairy. The sessile phyllodes have an ovate to lanceolate or elliptic shape and are in length and wide. It blooms from July to October and produces yellow flowers.
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Hakea verrucosa is a spreading prickly shrub growing to high and does not form a lignotuber. The branchlets are covered mostly in densely matted short rusty hairs. The green terete leaves are about long and wide, ending in a sharp point long. The leaves are smooth and have a tendency to point in one direction from the branchlet.
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Hakea actites is a prickly shrub or tree growing to high and forms a lignotuber. Smaller branches are silky to densely covered with short matted hairs. The light green leaves are smooth, needle-like long and in diameter ending with a sharp point long. The inflorescence consists of 1-6 white flowers appearing in clusters in leaf axils.
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The intricate and prickly shrub typically grows to a height of . It has hairy, rigid and pungent branchlets. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The sessile and evergreen phyllodes have a variable and inequilateral shape that is usually obtriangular to obdeltate with a length of and a width of and a prominent midrib.
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The rigid spreading prickly shrub typically grows to a height of . The branchlets are glabrous to sparsely haired and have scarring where phyllodes have detached. The pungent, rigid, glabrous phyllodes are sessile and are found on distinct, yellow stem-projections. Each phyllode has a straight to curved shape and are usually in length with a width of .
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M. rubicaulis is a large, straggling, very prickly shrub. It flowers from June to September, sporting long clusters of many pink spherical flower heads 1–1.5 cm across. The flowers fade to white, so the clusters sport both pink and white flower- heads most of the time. Leaves are double-compound, 8–15 cm long, with thorny rachis.
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The prickly shrub typically grows to a height of and has non- glaucous branchlets. It has simple, dissected, subpinnatisect leaves with a blade that is . It blooms from May to September and produces a terminal raceme irregular inflorescence with green or yellow flowers and orange styles. Later it forms red-brown simple hairy oblong to ovoid fruit that is long.
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It is a rigid and prickly shrub that typically grows to a height of but can reach as high as . It can have a scrambling, sprawling or tangled erect habit. The shrub has ridged stems and curving spine-tipped phyllodes that form continuous wings along the stem. It produces globular, cream or yellow flowerheads between March to December in the species' native range.
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The spreading, multi-stemmed and prickly shrub typically grows to a height of and a width of around . The pubescent to hirsute branchlets have slender stipules. The ascending to erect, rigid green phyllodes are straight to recurved and have a narrowly oblong shape. The phyllodes are in length and and are asymmetrically narrowed toward the base and have four main nerves in total.
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The spreading and prickly shrub typically grows to a height of . It has glabrous to subglabrous branchlets with a light grey coloured epidermis and spinose long stipules. The sessile, patent, rigid green phyllodes have a slightly inequilaterally narrowly oblong to narrowly oblong-elliptic or lanceolate shape that is sometimes linear. The phyllodes are in length and wide with a prominent midrib.
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The spreading and prickly shrub typically grows to a height of that has glabrous branches with light grey coloured bark. The coarsely pungent branchlets are rigid, terete and have no ribbing. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The pungent, rigid and green phyllodes are mostly patent with a length if and a diameter of about .
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The prickly shrub typically grows to a height of and has a dense or obconic habit. It has glabrous or sparsely haired branchlets. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The glabrous leathery and evergreen phyllodes are patent to erect with a narrowly oblong oblanceolate, linear or linear-oblanceolate shape and are straight to slightly curved.
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The prickly shrub typically grows to a height of and can have an erect or sprawling habit. It has hairy and terete branchlets with persistent stipules that are up to in length. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The evergreeen, sessile to subsessile phyllodes can be patent to inclined with an inequilaterally ovate to lanceolate shape.
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Hovea acanthoclada, the thorny hovea, is a prickly shrub in the family Fabaceae, native to the south-west of Western Australia. It is erect and rigid in habit, growing to between 0.6 and 2 metres high. The species has purple or blue flowers that appear between July and October in its native range. It occurs on rocky slopes and outcrops.
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Rubus philadelphicus is an uncommon North American species of brambles in the rose family. It has been found in the eastern United States, primarily in the Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania and West Virginia.Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map Rubus philadelphicus is an prickly shrub with arching canes, slightly prickly. Fruit is fleshy and by all accounts good-tasting.
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The wattle is distinctly known for its deep-purple heartwood. However, once cut and left exposed to air for a few weeks, the purple turns near black. From the exterior, the wattle is a dark green, prickly shrub to small tree that can grow 2–4 m high and up to 8m wide. The growth rate is very slow in mature plants, shown through photo points of over 30 years.
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The erect prickly shrub typically grows to a height of . It resembles Acacia urophylla but has some subtle differences including trowel shaped phyllodes that have a distinctive gland angle along the barely scalloped or notched adaxial marginh. The phyllodes have a length of and a width of with two main nerves per fact with a few less prominent lateral nerves. It blooms in September and produces yellow flowers.
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The rigid prickly shrub typically grows to a height of . The glabrous, short, rigid and straight branchlets are patent to ascending are often spinose and lightly covered in a fine white powdery coating. Like many species it has phyllodes rather than new leaves. The grey-green to blue-green, pungent, sessile and dimidiate phyllodes have a length of and a width of with a midrib near lower margin.
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Grevillea erinacea is a shrub of the genus Grevillea native to a small area in the Mid West region of Western Australia. The spindly, prickly shrub typically grows to a height of has few branches and has non-glaucous branchlets. It has simple leaves with an undissected blade that are in length and wide. It blooms from July to December and produces an inflorescence with green or white or green flowers.
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Melaleuca marginata is a prickly shrub, growing to a height of about . The leaves are arranged alternately along the stem, more or less oval in shape, long and wide, crescent-shaped in cross section and tapering to a pointed, sharp end. The white flowers are in clusters of up to 25 flowers along the sides of the branches, each cluster up to in diameter. The style is long.
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Grevillea phillipsiana is a shrub of the genus Grevillea native to a few small scattered areas in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. The prickly shrub typically grows to a height of and has non-glaucous branchlets. It has simple flat linear undissected leaves with a blade that is long and wide. It blooms from July to September and produces a terminal raceme irregular inflorescence with red flowers and red styles.
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Daviesia horrida, the prickly bitter-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prickly shrub, growing to between 0.3 and 2 metres in height. The red and yellow pea flowers are produced between July and November in its native range. The species was first formally described by Swiss botanist Carl Meissner in Johann Georg Christian Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae in 1844.
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Hakea psilorrhyncha is an erect very prickly shrub typically growing to a height of with a slender growth habit and does not form a lignotuber. The terete leaves grow alternately on branchlets and are long and wide ending with a very sharp point. The branchlets and new leaf growth is a rusty colour. The inflorescence consists of 6-8 sweetly scented brown-yellow clusters of flowers in the leaf axils on a stem long.
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Grevillea rara, also known as the rare grevillea, is a shrub of the genus Grevillea native to a small area in the South West region of Western Australia. The dense prickly shrub typically grows to a height of and has non- glaucous branchlets. It has simple dissected subpinnatisect, leaves with a blade that is long. It blooms from August to November and produces an axillary or terminal raceme irregular inflorescence with white or pink flowers and white styles.
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Acacia nyssophylla is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves. It is native to an area in the Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia, through South Australia to extreme north-western Victoria, and north from South Australia to near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, to Western New South Wales near Bourke. The intricate prickly shrub typically grows to a height of . It blooms from July to October and produces yellow flowers.
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Rubus setosus, the bristly blackberry, is a North American species of flowering plant in the rose family. It is widespread in much of central and eastern Canada (from Ontario to Newfoundland) and the northeastern and north- central United States (from New England west to Minnesota and south as far as North Carolina)Bailey, Liberty Hyde. 1947. Flora of Kalamazoo County, Michigan. Vascular Plants 140–141, figure 6 Rubus setosus is a prickly shrub up to tall.
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Rubus sceleratus is a rare North American species of brambles in the rose family. It has been found only in Coös County in the state of New Hampshire in the northeastern United States.Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map Brainerd, Ezra ex Fernald, Merritt Lyndon 1949. Rhodora 51(603): 50–51, plates 1131–1132 description in Latin, commentary in English, photos of herbarium specimens Rubus sceleratus is a prickly shrub up to 3 meters (10 feet) tall.
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Rubus nivalis, commonly known as snow raspberry, is a species of flowering plant in the rose family. It is native to northwestern North America: British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, and far northern California.Calflora taxon report, University of California, Rubus nivalis Douglas, Snow bramble, snow dwarf bramble, snow raspberry Rubus nivalis is a small, prickly shrub up to 15 cm (6 inches) tall, with stems creeping along the ground. Leaves are evergreen, sometimes simple (non-compound) but sometimes compound with 3 leaflets.
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Rubus pensilvanicus, known commonly as Pennsylvania blackberry, is a prickly bramble native to eastern and central North America from Newfoundland south to Georgia, west as far as Ontario, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Arkansas. The species is also established as a naturalized plant in California.Calflora taxon report, University of California, Rubus pensilvanicus Poiret, Pennsylvania blackberry Rubus pensilvanicus is a prickly shrub up to 3 meters (10 feet) tall. The canes are green at first but then turn dark red, usually ridged, with copious straight prickles.
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The slender prickly shrub typically grows to a height of and has an erect or spreading habit. It has orange to reddish brown coloured branches and hairy branchlets with narrowly triangular to setaceous long stipules. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The glabrous, rigid, pungent and olive green coloured phyllodes appear quite crowded on the branchlets and are trowel shaped with a length of and a width of with a prominent midrib and absent lateral nerves.
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The prickly shrub grows to a height of and has a width of around with a dense habit. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The dark green, rigid and sharp-pointed phyllodes have three or four prominent longitudinal veins. The bright yellow to pale yellow cylindrical flowerheads appear in groups of one to three in the axils of the phyllodes from July to October, followed by straight or slightly curved seed pods which are 4 to long and wide.
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Rhamnus or Rhamnous () or Rhamnuntus or Rhamnountos (Ῥαμνοῦντος) was a deme of ancient Attica, belonging to the tribe Aeantis.Harpocr., Suid., s. v. It derived its name from a thick prickly shrub, which still grows upon the site. The town stood upon the eastern coast of Attica, at the distance of 60 stadia from Marathon, and upon the road leading from the latter town to Oropus. It is described in the Periplus of Pseudo- Scylax as a fortified place;Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, p. 21.
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