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  • COMMON NAME: Desert date, Egyptian myrobalan.
  • ARABIC: زقوم
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Balanites aegyptiaca (L.) Del.
  • SYNONYMS: Ximenia aegyptiaca L. , Agialid aegyptiaca (L.) Kuntze.
  • FAMILY: BALANITACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Dubai
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Landscape (L) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs Tree
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:813589-1#synonyms https://www.floraofqatar.com/balanites_aegyptiaca.htm Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE.
Moderate salinity tolerance, ornamental uses, very useful plant for wood products, many medicinal uses.
Bushy, thorny shrub or small tree, 2-5 meters high, with many compact branches, mostly green or yellowish-green, minutely pubescent with thick rigid thorns. Leaves alternate, 2-leaflets, coriaceous, obovate-elliptical, entire, woolly. Flowers green, 5-merous in cymes of 3-5 flowers. Petals linear, glabrous, longer than sepals. Fruit a drupe, Ovid-elliptical, of about plum size, green turning yellow. Flowering in spring.
Desert plant also cultivated in nurseries or in salty places.
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