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The Bedouins of the Eastern Desert in Egypt would collect the seeds of this woody annual and grind them to be cooked into a gruel. [7] In Israel and Palestine, the plant grows in the Judean desert westward of the Dead Sea, as also along the southeastern portions of the Negev, as far as the Great Rift Valley. [8] Allium ampeloprasum: Wild leek
The Rub' al-Khali desert is a sedimentary basin stretching along a south-west to north-east axis across the Arabian Shelf. [5] At an altitude of 1,000 metres (3,300 ft), rock landscapes yield to the Rub' al-Khali, a vast stretch of sand whose extreme southern point crosses the center of Yemen.
The Syrian Desert (Arabic: بادية الشام Bādiyat Ash-Shām), also known as the North Arabian Desert, [1] the Jordanian steppe, or the Badiya, [2] is a region of desert, semi-desert, and steppe, covering about 500,000 square kilometers (200,000 square miles) of West Asia, including parts of northern Saudi Arabia, eastern Jordan, southern Syria, and western Iraq.
The Moorten Botanical Garden and Cactarium is a 1 acre (0.40 ha) family-owned botanical garden in Palm Springs, California, specializing in cacti and other desert plants. The gardens lie within Riverside County's Coachella Valley, part of the Colorado Desert ecosystem.
Many cacti have roots that spread out widely, but only penetrate a short distance into the soil. In one case, a young saguaro only 12 cm (4.7 in) tall had a root system with a diameter of 2 m (7 ft), but no more than 10 cm (4 in) deep. [16] Cacti can also form new roots quickly when rain falls after a drought.
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The peyote (/ p eɪ ˈ oʊ t i /; Lophophora williamsii / l ə ˈ f ɒ f ə r ə w ɪ l i ˈ æ m z i aɪ /) is a small, spineless cactus which contains psychoactive alkaloids, [2] particularly mescaline (see also: cactus alkaloids). [3] Peyote is a Spanish word derived from the Nahuatl peyōtl ([ˈpejoːt͡ɬ]), meaning "caterpillar cocoon ...