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The history and character of gardens in ancient Egypt, like all aspects of Egyptian life, depended upon the Nile, and the network of canals that drew water from it.Water was hoisted from the Nile in leather buckets and carried on the shoulders to the gardens, and later, beginning in about the 14th century B.C., lifted from wells by hoists with counterbalancing weights called shadouf in Arabic.
Flora of Egypt. According to the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, this excludes the Sinai Peninsula. Subcategories.
The papyrus plant is relatively easy to grow from seed, though in Egypt, it is more common to split the rootstock, [14] 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. [15] Vegetative propagation is the suggested process of creating new plants.
Zygophyllum album, a desert plant Date palm. The Nile is the lifeline of Egypt, the land bordering the river being rendered fertile by the irrigation it receives. Crops grown in the Nile Valley include cotton, cereals, sugarcane, beans, oil seed crops and peanuts. [3] Date palms grow here as well as sycamore, carob and Acacia.
Over 2000 different species of flowering or aromatic plants have been found in tombs. [2] Papyrus was an extremely versatile crop that grew wild and was also cultivated. [16] The roots of the plant were eaten as food, but it was primarily used as an industrial crop. The stem of the plant was used to make boats, mats, and paper.
Another suggestion is the caper plant which is known to grow in the rocky soils of the region and along walls. [9] Hyssop was also used for purgation (religious purification) in Egypt, where, according to Chaeremon the Stoic, the priests used to eat it with bread in order to purify this type of food and make it suitable for their austere diet. [12]
At that time, the motifs of importance are those based on the lotus and papyrus plants respectively, and these, with the palm tree capital, were the chief types employed by the Egyptians, until under the Ptolemies in the 3rd to 1st centuries BC, various other river plants were also employed, and the conventional lotus capital went through ...
This is a list of botanical gardens in Egypt Garden Location Established Notes & images Agricultural Museum [1] Cairo: 1937: Ain Shams University ...