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  • COMMON NAME: elegance
  • ARABIC: رمث
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Haloxylon salicornicum ( Moq. ) Bunge ex Boiss.
  • SYNONYMS: H. salicornica, Haloxylon schweinfutyhii, Hammada elegans.
  • FAMILY: CHENOPODIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Cosmectis (C) Apiculture (A) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production. Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP). The fruiting plant is very conspicuous, especially when the sun provides backlighting to the papery fruitwings. Often swollen red leaves caused by insects galls can be found H. salicornicum.
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/haloxylon_salicornicum.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.
Honey nectar plants. Stems boiled in water used to treat low blood sugar. Plant was also used to make soap. Roots used as firewood.

A low erect strict pale almost leafless shrub, up to 90 cm high. Stem woody at base, branches thick, erect or ascending, jointed, drying yellow. Leaves reduced or rudimentary with woolly axils. Inflorescences spikes 3-6 cm long. Flowers with 2 ovate concave bracteoles, woolly at base, stamens 5, alternating with 5, papillose-glandular staminodes. Styles short; stigmas 2. Fruit winged, 0.6-0.8 cm in diameter, wings obovate-orbicular, scarious, overlapping, unequal, yellowish-brown. 

Flowering from March-April, September-October.
sandy and gravely soil.
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