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The papyrus plant is relatively easy to grow from seed, though in Egypt, it is more common to split the rootstock, [10] and grows quite fast once established. Extremely moist soil or roots sunken in the water is preferred and the plant can flower all year long. [11] Vegetative propagation is the suggested process of creating new plants.
Trifolium alexandrinum (Egyptian clover, berseem clover) [2] is an annual clover cultivated mostly in irrigated sub-tropical regions, and used as leguminous crop. It is an important winter crop in Egypt, where it may have been cultivated since ancient times, [3] [4] and was introduced into northern India in the early nineteenth century.
The seed contains a fragranced light oil, having the unusual and valuable quality that it does not grow rancid. [7] In the Middle Ages, it was used as a base oil for certain perfumes. [8] Bedouins in Egypt would supply the Cairo market with behen-nut seeds, from which a fine, lubricant oil was extracted for use in mechanical watches. [7]
Nymphaea lotus is often used as a freshwater aquarium plant. In ornamental garden pools and in greenhouse culture, it is grown for its flowers, which do not normally appear under aquarium conditions. In ornamental garden pools and in greenhouse culture, it is grown for its flowers, which do not normally appear under aquarium conditions.
Flax is harvested for fiber production after about 100 days, or a month after the plants flower, and two weeks after the seed capsules form. The bases of the plants begin to turn yellow. If the plants are still green, the seed will not be useful, and the fiber will be underdeveloped. The fiber degrades once the plants turn brown.
Henna flowers have four sepals and a 2 mm (0.079 in) calyx tube, with 3 mm (0.12 in) spread lobes. Its petals are ovate, with white or red stamens found in pairs on the rim of the calyx tube. The ovary is four-celled, 5 mm (0.20 in) long, and erect. Henna fruits are small, brownish capsules, 4–8 mm (0.16–0.31 in) in diameter, with 32–49 ...
Senna alexandrina (Alexandrian senna, in Arabic عشرج or عشرق or سنامكي and see below) is an ornamental plant in the genus Senna.It is used in herbalism.It grows natively in upper Egypt, especially in the Nubian region, and near Khartoum (), where it is cultivated commercially.
Flowers in globulous heads 1.2–1.5 cm in diameter of a bright golden-yellow color, set up either axillary or whorly on peduncles 2–3 cm long located at the end of the branches. Pods are strongly constricted, hairy, white-grey, thick and softly tomentose. Its seeds number approximately 8000/kg. [14]