It is an attractive plant for natural garden themes, in rock or steppe gardens, and as a specimen making a silhouette against a wall or in group planting | The Felt Plant can tolerate high salinity and requires no irrigation once established |
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The flowers are grey on the outside and purple on the inside, in clustered axillary inflorescences | With its bold foliage, the leaves are light silver-green on top and velvety underneath; they are large, fleshy and ovate |
It is indigenous in Saudi Arabia, but is also native to southeast Asia and tropical Africa.
13The fact that it is poisonous eye and skin contact should be avoided means that it is not often planted ornamentally | The shrub can grow to between 3 and 5 metres high, and about the same width |
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It can be used in both open desert and urban areas |
Maintenance measures are necessary from time to time to improve its appearance.
24The impressive fruit is a large capsule, which opens to release dark seeds with silky hairs for distribution by the wind | procera is an interesting plant and wrongly maligned |
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