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Thymus bovei is a least known desert thyme. It has thyme-scented leaves and white flowers.
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a small shrub that grows in hot deserts. It is an African element that penetrates northwards along the rift valley and grows nea the Dead Sea in Israel.
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"Near the previous species (C. inflatum) one can find this one. They are quite similar, but this one has no inflated calyx and there are no intermediate plants, this means they are ""good"" species."
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We found this Helianthemum on the dry rocks of the Anti-Atlas above Tafraut, 1700m.
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Oxalis hirta is a nice South African species.
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Tolpis barbata is a common Mediterranean annual. In Israel its reaches its eastern border and therefore it is very rare and endangered.
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this is one of the African species penetrating Israel along the rift valley. Ther original picture was over exposured, but I managed to fixed it somehow.
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This shy annual (Cerastium fragillimum) grows on screes and roadsides in Mt Hermon. Here you can see the stages between flower and fruit.
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Helianthemum kahiricum is a common desert perennial. The flowers r nice only in the morning, later the petals fall
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Oxalis palmifrons is a South african species, it has amazing palm-like leaves, hence its name.
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Tolpis barbata is a common Mediterranean annual.
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Abutilon hirtum is an E African species penetrating northwards alogn the Rift Valley. In the Dead Sea area this is more or less the only flower blooming at the moment. It is found in prings, date groves and other irrigated places.
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Ceratium illyricum is a rare tiny plant of north Israel. In Cyprus , Lebanon and Turkey it is common.
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This is the dry 'skeleton' of the Mediterranean annual named - Helianthemum salicifolium. u can clearly see the 3 broad seapls that are so typical for this specues.
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Pachypodium succulentum is an African caudex plant. Caudex means that it has a bottle-like or thick base trunk.
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Tolpis barbata is a common Mediterranean annual. In Israel it reaches its eastern border, therfore it is locally rare and endangered.
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Abutilon hirtum is an E African species penetrating northwards alogn the Rift Valley. In the Dead Sea area this is more or less the only flower blooming at the moment. It is found in prings, date groves and other irrigated places.
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a common weed in Turkey. u can see the flower and the fruits.
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Helichrysum rubicundum has peculiar light orange flowers. It grows in arid rocky slopes.
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Paeonia mascula reaches its southern range in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel. Locally it is very rare, endangered and protected. At the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens we have a backup population for educational reasons and in case there are problems with the very few wild populations.
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Trachelium caeruleum is a perennial of the west sub-Mediterranean region.
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Abutilon hirtum is an E African species penetrating northwards alogn the Rift Valley. In the Dead Sea area this is more or less the only flower blooming at the moment. It is found in springs, date groves and other irrigated places.
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Ceratocephala falcata is one of the cutest flowers, the whole plant if very small and it usually geows within little stones. It belongs to the buttercup plant fmaily (Ranunculaceae).
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Helichrysum sanguineum is a beautiful perennial, common in Israel andblooming at the end of spring.