Ruscus
''Ruscus'', commonly known as butcher's broom, is a genus of six species of flowering plants, native to western and southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwestern Africa, and southwestern Asia east to the Caucasus. In the APG III system, APG III classification system, it is placed in the family (biology), family Asparagaceae, subfamily Nolinoideae (formerly the family Ruscaceae). Like many lilioid monocots, it was formerly classified in the family Liliaceae. The species are evergreen shrub-like perennial plants, growing to approximately tall. They have branched stems that bear numerous cladodes (flattened, leaf-like stem tissue, also known as phylloclades) long and broad. The true leaf, leaves are minute, scale-like, and non-photosynthetic. The flowers are small, white with a dark-violet centre, and situated on the middle of the cladodes. The fruit is a red Berry (botany), berry in diameter. Some species are plant sexuality, monoecious while others are plant sexuality, dioecious. ...
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