Leaves

Small compound leaves are shiny, resinous, and dark green when young but can remain on shrubs for extended periods turning almost brown but still viable. The resin odor is at once acrid to deter plant eaters and yet pungently pleasant. The whole desert takes on this heavenly aroma after a rain shower signaling a return of life and verdancy.

Flowers

Yellow flowers with five petals appear generously in spring and at almost any other time of year following periods of rain.

Shrub

Medium to large sized shrubs. Often several seemingly distinct shrubs will be growing together in a ring 6 to 20 m in diameter. This represents a clone of an original plant that may have been growing continuously for thousands of years.

Fruit

Spherical shizocarps with a halo of glistening white pubescence have usually 5 sections each containing a single seed.

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