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  • COMMON NAME: Manna tree, Camel's Thorn
  • ARABIC: العاقول-شويكة
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Alhagi graecorum Boiss
  • SYNONYMS: A. mannifera Desv, A. maurorum Medik., Hedysarum alhagi L.
  • FAMILY: FABACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Sandy Sabkha
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Plant exudes sugary sap (stimulated by insect punctures) that dries into small lumps of 'manna' (Townsend & Guest, 1974).
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://flora.org.il/plants/ALHGRA/ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2085826 Encyclopedia of medicinal plants of UAE 1&2 from Zayed complex for herbal Research & traditional medicine, AD. 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.
Infusion of plant or plant juice used to treat worm infestation, cataract, jaundice, migraine, arthritis, constipation. Green root boiled and taken as tea with lime as an aphrodisiac and to treat kidney disease.

Low shrub, with many branches, more or less glabrous, up to 60 cm high. Stems erect or ascending, stout, striate with spinescent twigs. Leaves simple, small or reduced, deciduous, obovate, subsessile, alternate. Flowers 1-1.5 cm long, solitary or 2-together, axillary on spiny twigs. 

Flowering from May to July.
same areas along coastal regions and sabkha edges (saline regions).
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