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  • COMMON NAME: Calligonum
  • ARABIC: أبل
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Calligonum crinitum Boiss.
  • SYNONYMS: Calligonum arabicum Soskov
  • FAMILY: POLYGONACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Fodder (F) Landscape (L) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: It is one of few plants able to grow on large mobile dunes, even in the leeward slopes.
Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:888476-1 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/21940271 M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003.
Highly salt tolerant up to half seawater salinity, grazed by animal, used for fuel and as an ornamental plant. One of the old well-known plants in folk medicinal use.

Large shrub, 50-180cm high, with stout, coiled, grey-whitish stems and branches. Young shoots, slender, flexible, green, swollen and knotty at the
nodes. Leaves mostly absent; ochrea entire, cup-like. Flowers solitary or 2-3 at the nodes. Perianth tiny lobes, oblong, obtuse, white-pink, with darker median vein. Achenes oblong, yellowish-green, 1-1.5cm long, covered with simple, long, soft, branched spreading bristles.

Flowering from January to March.
Sand and sand dunes and salty places. Also cultivated along the roadsides in Sharjah, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Jebel al-Dhana and Sila.
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