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This is a beautiful shrub of the extreme desert.
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Chenopodium foliosum is a common weed of the Middle East mountains including Mt Hermon where this pic was taken. In Europe it is more sparce. The fleshy fruits are dispersed by birds.
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Here are the stems of this strange saline shrublet. The flowers and fruits are hidden in the scale clumps at the bottom.
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Salicornia europaea gros all over coastal
Europe, reaching the deserts salines of Israel. It grows in salty soil and well adapted to this harch environment. The youngt branches are edible after fried or pickled. In Israel it is now grown commercially, irrigated by salty, fossil water.
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This is a flower closeup of a beautiful shrub of the extreme desert.
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Chenopodium rubrum is a weed, in Israel it is rather rare, locally common around the Lake of Galilee. So locally it grows in naturally disturbed habitat (lake banks). Most of the plants turn red, hence hte plant's name.
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Noaea mucronata is a common dwarf shrub of the semidesert in Israel and the whole Middle East. Here u can see its winged fruits.
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Salsola cyclophylla is a common chenopod of the extreme desert. Here u can see its fruits.
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Anabasis articulata is a common desert shrublet. It has articulated stems and no leaves. The plant is actually modular and can get rid of parts of stem (including salts) by drying them without affecting the rest of the plant. Here u can see the fruits that are winged and often mistakenly treated as flowers.
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Halocnemum strobilaceum is extremely rare in Israel, but is rather common in the Middle East.
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Noaea mucronata is a common spiny shrublet found in semideserts in the Middle East and beyond.
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Salsola cyclophylla is a common chenopod of the extreme desert. Here u can see its fruits.
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and this is a closeup of the fruits.
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Noaea mucronata is a common perennial od the semideserts of the Middle East. It is one of the very few spiny members of the Chenopodiaceae plant family. Here u can see its winged fruits.
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Salsola imbricata is a common shrublet of the southern Arava Valley. Here you can see its fruits.
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Anabasis articulata is a common desert shrublet. It has articulated stems and no leaves. The plant is actually modular and can get rid of parts of stem (including salts) by drying them without affecting the rest of the plant. Here u can see the shy flowers that are wind pollinated.
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Salsola is a large genus of mainly desert species. The leaves are very small, thus losing little water. The flowers are tiny, greenish and wind pollinated. In this pic u can see the fruits which are flower-like in shape, wind dispersed by their wings.
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Anabasis syriaca is a common perennial of the semideserts in Israel, Jordan and Syaria.
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Summer is ending and many chenopods are fruiting. Salsola vermiculata is common in semidesert, its has flower-like fruits that range from green to purple. The winged fruit is dispersed by wind.
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Atriplex dimorphostegia is a rather rare desert annual, found in sandy places. It has two typres of fruit that can be seen in this picture.
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An annual with succulent blunt leaves. Flowers colourless - wind pollinated. Stems creeping to ascending.
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Atriplex dimorphostegia is a rather rare desert annual, found in sandy places. It has two types of fruit that can be seen in this picture.
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An annual with succulent blunt leaves. Flowers colourless - wind pollinated. Stems creeping to ascending.
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Beta vulgaris (wild beet) is a common weed throughout the world. It is the progenitor of edible beetroot. Here u can see its fruits.