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Suaeda aegyptiaca
Also called Suwwad
Suaeda aegyptiaca is a salt-tolerant succulent shrub or subshrub from desert and coastal salt flats of the Middle East and North Africa. It thrives in saline, dry, sunny sites and needs very little water.
Suaeda aegyptiaca is a species of succulent plant in the family Amaranthaceae (formerly classified under the Chenopodiaceae), and salt-tolerant (halophyte) plant that is distributed in eastern North Africa, the Near East and West Asia.
Local vernacular names for this plant in Qatar are juliman, guluman, ikhreet or hamd.
Its main occurrence is in the Near Eastern countries east of the Mediterranean Sea, from northern Libya eastwards to Iraq, the southern half of Iran, southern Afghanistan, to Pakistani Baluchistan, and southwards to the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen and the Dhofar region of Oman. Around the Mediterranean it occurs in Libya, Egypt (including the Sinai), Israel, Jordan and Syria, perhaps also Lebanon. It occurs in Qatar and in the United Arab Emirates. It is particularly common in salt-affected regions of southern Iran.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Suaeda aegyptiaca 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.
