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  • COMMON NAME: Jerusalem Thorn
  • ARABIC: شوك البحر
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Parkinsonia aculeate L.
  • SYNONYMS: Parkinsonia thornberi
  • FAMILY: FABACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Ras-Al-Khaimah
  • CATEGORIES: Landscape (L)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Tree
  • HABITATS: Terrace Terrace (Silt) Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
https://www.floraofqatar.com/parkinsonia_aculeata.htm https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:512242-1/images Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE.
Highly salt tolerant up to half seawater salinity, ornamental plant.
Glabrous, evergreen or sometimes semi-deciduous spiny tree, 2-6 meters high, with light foliage and long pendulous branches. Leaves bipinnate, elongated, 10-40cm long, with numerous obovate, small leaflets. Flowers yellow, in axillary racemes. Calyx with short tube, 5-lobed. Petals 5, somewhat unequal. Stamens 10, free. Stigma small. Pod linear, scarcely compressed, 1-5 seeded, torulose but not septate, 3-10cm long. Seeds small, brownish. Flowering in the spring.
Cultivated in gardens, parks and road sides. Tolerates salinity and survives in harsh locations. Flowering in the spring.
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