Posted by ModraY at 12/19/2007

Cyclamen persicum, sowbread, (Hebrew:Rakefet, רקפת, Arabic: سيكلامين) Some say it is the most erotic flower, look to the lower part: a red ring, a light tongue and red lips! Cyclamen, a genus of plants of the Primrose family, received its name kyklaminos meaning “circle” from its bulblike, underground stem. In most of the 20 known […]

Fruit a pale brown leathery pod, 3.5-8 x 1.7-2.8 cm, oblong, rounded to acuminate at apex, with lateral veins, dehiscent, apiculate, very flat, constricted with thickened margin, solitary or borne in tufts. Seeds few, subcircular to lenticular, 8-10 mm in diameter.

Fleur-de-lis in English: “lily flower”, in Hebrew: shoshan, שושן, “פלור דה ליס”. (also spelled fleur-de-lys; an archaic spelling is fleur-de-luce) The Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph for “Tree of Life” (“I am the plant which comes from Nu/Osiris”) was three lotus lilies. The trunk of the tree represented the World Pillar, the center of the universe. The […]

Bible, Hebrew. Bible, English. Bijbel, Dutch. Fiad, M, Ancient Egyptian Medicine, Cairo, Egypt, 2006 Manniche, Lise, An Ancient Egyptian Herbal, Cairo Egypt, 2006 Pliny the Elder, Natural History: a selection, by John F. Healy (2004). Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Books 12-16 and17-19, Loeb Theophrastus, Enquiry into plants,Volumes I and II, Loeb Tristram, H. B., […]

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Posted by ModraY at 4/07/2008

Location: Banias (Golan Heights, May 2008) Posted by Martha at 5/14/2008 Labels: Opuntia ficus-indica

Location: Banias (Golan Heights, May 2008) Posted by Martha at 5/14/2008 4 comments Labels: Opuntia ficus-indica

Picture taken in Neot Kedumim. Posted by ModraY at 4/22/2008

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Ziziphus spina-christi, Jujube, Alternate name: Christ’s thorn, (Hebrew:שיזף מצוי , Sheizaf matzui, sheziffin, Alternate Hebrew name:,אטד Atad Many scholars identify the jujube as the biblical atad, mentioned in the “Parable of the trees” in the book of Judges (Judges 9:15) known as Jotham’s Parable (Hebrew: משל יותם), an allegorical story against the monarchy in recent […]

Acacia tortilis, Umbrella thorn acacia, “Seyal”, “Shittim Wood” (Hebrew: Shitat hasokhech, שיטת הסוכך). The Acacia tortilis, the umbrella thorn acacia is a spiny, desert tree of Sudanian origin that grows in Israel in the hot areas of the Judean Desert and the eastern Negev along with the spiraled species (Acacia raddiana). The umbrella thorn grows […]

‘They showed the elephants the juice of grapes and mulberries, to arouse them for battle’. I Maccabees 6:34 In the Mediterranean countries the white and the black mulberry have been cultivated. The morus alba (White Mulberry) is a native of China and are extensively grown for their leaves as food for silkworms. The black mulberry, […]