Long Grass Nature Refuge
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This plant is an erect, annual herb, to 2.5 m high, with blotched purple stems. Leaves are dark green on the upper surface, similar in shape to grape leaves, 15 cm in diameter, and roughly textured with minute bristles. Flowers are inconspicuous, both male and female occurring in leaf axils towards the end of the branches. Flowers develop into hard, woody, spiny burrs, 1.2 cm to 2 cm long with numerous hooked spines.
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