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in the plantations, this is not done, because the seeds are 
destroyed by insects and it does not grow well from cuttings. 
Eremosparton has slender, pliant branches (fig. 23). The 
bark is yellow in older specimens, green in younger ones. 
Fig. 23. Eremosparton aphyllum with fruits. The middle thicker branch is 
the year-shoot of the previous year, broken at the point. X, X: last year’s 
assimilation-branches, now dead. Beyond these new branches have arisen.June. 
