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Welcome to “Flowers in Israel”. This gallery contains pictures and photos of Israeli wildflowers. A wildflower is a flower that grows wild, meaning it was not intentionally seeded or planted. There are four different geographical zones and a climate-range from semi-arid to subtropical in Israel. The landscape of flowers and plants changes abruptly with its […]
Calotropis procera, Sodom’s apple (Hebrew: ptilat hamidbar) grows in the hot oases around the Dead Sea and Jordan Valley regions. It is a soft-wooded, evergreen perennial shrub and is not a ‘human, friendly’ plant. In Israel, the native pollinators are carpenter bees (Xylocopa).Josephus Flavius, the Jewish historian living in the Roman period, was the first […]
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle and the oil-tree (Isaiah 41:19). 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 […]
according to “the Land of Israel”,chapter XXI, a journal of Travels in Palestine (1865) by Reverend Henry Baker Tristram * (1822 – 1906) … Read More Eshkol National Park An oasis in the Negev Desert… Read More The myrtle, Myrtus communis, is a shrub with evergreen leaves. The small white flowers are produced in the […]
according to “the Land of Israel”,chapter XXI, a journal of Travels in Palestine (1865) by Reverend Henry Baker Tristram * (1822 – 1906) … Read More Eshkol National Park An oasis in the Negev Desert… Read More The myrtle, Myrtus communis, is a shrub with evergreen leaves. The small white flowers are produced in the […]
according to “the Land of Israel”,chapter XXI, a journal of Travels in Palestine (1865) by Reverend Henry Baker Tristram * (1822 – 1906) … Read More Eshkol National Park An oasis in the Negev Desert… Read More The myrtle, Myrtus communis, is a shrub with evergreen leaves. The small white flowers are produced in the […]
according to “the Land of Israel”,chapter XXI, a journal of Travels in Palestine (1865) by Reverend Henry Baker Tristram * (1822 – 1906) … Read More Eshkol National Park An oasis in the Negev Desert… Read More The myrtle, Myrtus communis, is a shrub with evergreen leaves. The small white flowers are produced in the […]
according to “the Land of Israel”,chapter XXI, a journal of Travels in Palestine (1865) by Reverend Henry Baker Tristram * (1822 – 1906) … Read More Eshkol National Park An oasis in the Negev Desert… Read More Job 30:4 – Who pluck mallow by the bushes, And whose food is the root of the broom […]
Acanthus syriacus, Syrian Bear’s breech (Hebrew: Kotsitz Suri, ÷åöéõ ñåøé). Acanthus (the Greek and Latin name for the plant is connected with “ake,” a sharp point), a genus of plants belonging to the natural order Acanthaceae. The species are natives of the southern parts of Europe and the warmer parts of Asia and Africa. The […]
“And the two doors [of theTemple] were of cypress wood” (1 Kings 6:34) The Phoenicians who acted as intermediaries on the Cypress’ journey from the Himalayas carried with it the association of eternal life, at odds with the death association. They planted the tree in Cyprus from whence it or the island got its name. […]
In Israel the Urginea maritime grows in the Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands Semi-steppe shrublands, Shrub-steppes, Deserts and extreme deserts, and Montane vegetation of Mt. Hermon. They grow only in natural habitats. The Galilee have been devastated by fire and what was left were the charred trunks of pine trees and some remains of bushes. Amid […]
Job 30:4 – Who pluck mallow by the bushes, And whose food is the root of the broom shrub. Althea derives from the Greek word ‘altho’ to cure’ and the family name Malvaceae is one of the many species of flowering plants that contains the genus Malva, the mallow genus, and its relatives, including the […]
