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Haloxylon salicornicum

Haloxylon salicornicum
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0

Haloxylon salicornicum is an almost leafless, salt and drought tolerant desert shrub of the Amaranth family, growing up to about 60 cm tall. It thrives in sandy, arid ground and needs full sun, very little water, and well-drained sand.

Family
Amaranthaceae (Amaranth & beet family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly, only when the sand is fully dry, and avoid soggy roots.
Soil
Very sandy, fast-draining mix with little organic matter.
Temperature
Tolerates hot desert conditions; protect from frost, roughly below 0 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
N. Africa to NW. India
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Haloxylon salicornicum is a salt tolerant, drought tolerant, desert shrub belonging to the family Amaranthaceae. It is a desert shrub and is found in Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Other Haloxylon plants

Haloxylon ammodendron · White saxaul tree · Haloxylon scoparium · Saxauls

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Haloxylon salicornicum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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