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Doufla, flora in jordan pella

Scientific name: Nerium oleander
Family: Apocynaceae
Common English name: Oleander
Common Arabic name: Douflah
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flora in jordan Squill pella

Scientific name: Urginea maritime
Family: Lilliaceae
Common English name: Sea Squill, Sea Onion
Common Arabic name: Aisalan, Bosalan, Basoul
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Eye of Sun Tulip, flora in jordan pella

Scientific name: Tulipa agenensis
Family: Liliaceae
English common name: eye-of-sun tulip, mountain tulip
Arabic common name: Zanbak, karn el-Ghazal
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flora in jordan pella,Wild Jujube

Scientific name: Ziziphus nummularia
Family: Rhamnaceae
English common name: wild jujube
Arabic common name: Sidra, Nabak
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Scientific name: Nerium oleander
Family: Apocynaceae
Common English name: Oleander
Common Arabic name: Douflah

 

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Pella Flora,jordan Doufla This plant utilizes the hawk moth, a marvelous insect, for pollination (See The Plants That Love Hawkmoths). Originally from Western Asia, the Oleander is a worldwide famous shrub, as an ornamental plant in parks, gardens and roadsides for it needs little or no water once established. In Jordan, the wild Oleander grows in the Wadis in the country except the eastern desert, where you can find it along watercourses, gravelly places and damp ravines. The pink and white flowers appear in summer and last for some time, and what we see of other colored flowers are ornamental cultivars and not wild. Although all parts of the plant are poisonous, and when burnt even the smoke is toxic, yet the common knowledge that it poisons the water streams along which it grows is invalid.

 

 

Scientific name: Urginea maritime
Family: Lilliaceae
Common English name: Sea Squill, Sea Onion
Common Arabic name: Aisalan, Bosalan, Basoul

 

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Pella Flora,jordan , Squill Its bulb can get as big as your head!! The plant's name is derived from the root that is able to grow through hard subsoil, and reach deeply situated water. The sea squill is used to heal neurological pains, skin problems, deep wounds and eye infections. The plant also contains materials that are used in conventional medicine to treat asthma, bronchitis and heart disorders. The bulb of the plant is used by the Bedouin to make poison to kill mice. It is also planted in the vicinity of Arab graves to protect them according to tradition. Its long spike that can reach up to 1m, flowers in autumn. Although the plant is used as an indicator of degradation, the Bedouin believe that whenever there is an abundance of Urginea maritima flowers, there will be a rainy winter. The plant is native to the Mediterranean region. You can find it spread almost allover Jordan, mainly in the wastelands and marginal areas.

 

   

Scientific name: Tulipa agenensis
Family: Liliaceae
English common name: eye-of-sun tulip, mountain tulip
Arabic common name: Zanbak, karn el-Ghazal

 
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flora pella,jordan,Eye of Sun tulip
 This scarlet flower is the mountain tulip! The name tulip is said to have come from the flower's resemblance (when viewed upside down) to the turban worn by many of the people of these Middle Eastern countries. Turban, or toliban as it was also called, was translated into the Latin word tulipa, now tulip (See Tracing the origin of Tulips). Tulipa Agenensis behaves like a true adventitious plant, that is, it grows in areas that become available after harvest or any clearing and abandoned grounds. It is native the mountainous areas of the Mediterranean region. In Jordan, it grows in the mountains of the northern part of the country. Out of three different species of tulip in the country, this tulip is considered the biggest!

 

   

Scientific name: Ziziphus nummularia
Family: Rhamnaceae
English common name: wild jujube
Arabic common name: Sidra, Nabak

 
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flora jordan,pella,Wild Jujube
 The wild jujube whole fruit is edible, along with the seeds inside it. Although historically people of Amman used to grind few fruits until they get a kind of a powder, eat it either raw or cooked with milk and water, no one eats it nowadays. Ziziphus species are used for many medicinal purposes in folk medicines all over the world (See Pharmaceutical effects of Ziziphus). The shrub grows in the northern rift valley, and can be mistaken with another wild jujube, which I known as the Christ-thorn. One of the most expensive honey types in the whole world is the one produced by bees fed on jujube flowers.