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  • COMMON NAME: Eyelash Plant
  • ARABIC: شوك الضبع، كنب
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Blepharis ciliaris (L.) B.L.Burtt
  • SYNONYMS: Blepharis edulis (Forssk.) Pers.
  • FAMILY: ACANTHACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Cosmectis (C) Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Wadi Slope Gulley
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP). Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production.
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://www.floraofqatar.com/blepharis_ciliaris.htm V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. 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.
Flowering parts and seeds burned and ground to a fine powder, used on burns and cuts to stop bleeding. Seeds used to treat hemorrhoids and inflammations. Dried roasted roots pounded to make 'kohl', used both to improve vision and as a cosmetic (as a substitute for antimony). The long spines were used to apply the 'kohl'. Honey nectar plants.
perennial, thistle like-spiny herb, 20-40 cm high minutely roughened ciliated, glaucous, much-branched from the base. Root-leaves soon disappearing, entire, with spiny margins, stems leaves oblong or lanceolate, tapering at base to a petiole, entire, with spiny margins, 2-4 cm long, about 1 cm wide. Spikes at length elongated, 4-ranked, the terminal sessile, the lateral short-peduncled. Bracts indurated, lanceolate-acuminate, strongly nerved and grooved, spreading, with 3-5 lateral spines on each side a long-spiny tip, longer than flowers, bracteoles shorter, linear-subulate, villous. Calyx 4-parted, of 2 large and 2 small sepals. Corolla blue, veined darker, 2-2.5 cm long, with 3-lobed lip and a small tooth on each side. Capsule about 1 cm long, flattened-ovate, tapering. Seeds released explosively when the plant is moistened. flowering from March-August.
foothills and rocky wadis.
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