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Agave shawii, Sonoran Desert

Photos by Jack Dykinga

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Agave Shawii at the Desert Garden at the Huntington Botanical Gardens, San Marino, 1927-1939.

Sign at base of plant reads: Agave Shawii. Engelm Amanyli Dagerae. Southwest Calif. 101-1.

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Aïe, aïe, aïe ! Ça pique au Jardin de Cactus de Lanzarote

Aïe, aïe, aïe ! Ça pique au Jardin de Cactus de Lanzarote

Voici une découverte que j’ai vraiment adoré! Cette visite doit incontestablement faire partie de vos incontournables lors de votre séjour à Lanzarote, c’est indéniable! Imaginez-vous : vous vous retrouvez au cœur d’une plantation de plus de 4500 cactus avec plus de 1400 espèces différentes ! Ça vous pique hein?? Il y a de quoi! Le Jardin de Cactus est un lieu emblématique de l’île. Nombreux sont…

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Finally buried Cacahuate, our rooster. It's been a few days. I miss him a lot and I'm going to miss him forever. I dont think I'm ever really going to be okay. But it's nice to have some sort of closure. When we lost Shawii there was nothing we could bury, she was just gone, and that hurt more because it felt like no matter what there was a chance we just missed her and didn't look in the right place. It's good to know I think. And I have ideas on what we can do to remember him. It was a wonderful few years and I'm glad my mom found him. I'm really upset I didn't get more time.

Also we put a sink over where he was buried so it wouldn't be disturbed and I'm going to ask that instead of a tombstone or casket I'm buried raw with a sink on top because that's fucking funny as shit

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Landscape drawing Agave shawii by Takao Miura

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Agave 'Cubic', A. shawii x parrasana, 'Kichiokan Marginata', and A. horrida.

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Shaw's Agave (Agave shawii)

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Some of the gals and the plants I associate them with.

Hind and Markh (leptadenia pyrotechnics)

Multi use desert shrub. The name is apparently bc it burns pretty well.

Qarnfel and 3osaj (lycium shawii)

This is the famous jinn bush. They say jinn live in it (but where don't they live?) It's edible , maybe, and closely related to the goji berry.

Umm al Duwais and Sidr (ziziphus Spina Christi )

Sidr honey is high class honey, the powder of the leaves is used to wash hair.

Zarqa and showk Al dhab (Blepharis ciliaris)

This plant is burnt to make a medicinal kind of khol

Even I don't understand the logic of all these plant associations. But they've always been in my heart

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Agave shawii

Baja, CA

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Some wild edible plants from the Arabian peninsula. For my own reference and whoever else would like to know:

Note: I'm not 100 percent on the toxicity of these plants. Information on them is few and far between.

Fruits:

Nitraria retusa:

red edible berries. Salt tolerant plant. Grows in the Middle East and North Africa.

(photo from username:Naturalist on iNatutalist. Image a plant with somewhat fleshy leaves and bright red berries)

Glossonema varians:

The fruit of this small wild plant are edible. They're harvested when green.

Image: photo from salla.sa (saudi seed merchant) the image is of a khaleeji style hat filled with tear drop shaped fruits. They are green ranging to brown and are covered with fleshy spikes.

Capparis spinosa: needs no introduction. This plant has edible fruit and flower buds (usually pickled)

Image: caper bush in full bloom. From alamy stock photos. It's has white flowers with pink stamens

cocculus pendulus: more of a vine than a tree. edible berries

Image: photo from flora of Qatar. Image is a close up of a red berry with leaves similar to olive leaves.

Lycium shawii:

A close relative of the goji berry. It's apparently edible but some say it's poisonous or harmful in large amounts..

Image: Wikipedia commons: image of a spiky plant with small greyish leaves and red berries.

Ziziphis (Spina Cristi, nummimura)

A tree, grows wild usually in wadis, it's fruit is edible and the leaves contain saponins and are traditionally used for washing hair and bodies of the dead before burial.

Image: Wikipedia, image of a broadleaved branch filled with little yellow flowers and some dark purplish fruit.

Rhus tripartita:

Arabic sources say it has delicious fruit. English sources all have the copy pasted line "the Arabs make an intoxicating drink from it's fruits" not sure of the original source.

Image:( flora of saudi) plant with oak like leaves, but smaller, it has green berries not yet red.

Sideroxylon mascatense: this tree grows in the mountains in oman and Yemen (it used to grow in the uae but not anymore) and the horn of Africa. It has small black berries. It's called boot in oman and is one of the few fruits listed here that I've actually tasted.

Image: from flora of the middle east. Plant with spiky branches, oval leaves and small black berries.

Grewia tenax:

Fruit is eaten fresh, dried or powdered in drinks.

Image: Wikipedia. Image of a branch, toothed leaves with a pretty white flower with slender petals and next to it is an orange fruit that looks like four orbs stuck together.

Edible greens

Erucaria hispanica: called wild rocket.

aizoon canariense: the seeds are also edible and the fleshy leaves are used as a salad green.

Rumex vesicatius: a kind of sorrel, it's sour and contain oxalic acid so can't be eaten in great quantities. It appears after the rain. Most of these greens do

Rumex cyprius: same as the above.

Cheeseweed mallow: called khubaizah in Arabic. The leaves are edible

Corchorus olitorius: jute mallow or molokhia. Popular pot herb in the middle east.

Brassica tournefortii: saharan mustard. The leaves are edible and spicy.

Edible roots

Emex spinosa: has a sweet edible root similar to a carrot but thinner.

Moraea sisyrinchium: a wild iris plant also called the barbary nut, despite some toxicity it's bulb is collected in the wild and eaten

Allium atroviolaceum: a wild leek.

Tarthooth: a parasitic plant. It's flowers are used for dye and it's flesh is edible.

Useful plants:

Salvadora persica: a large sprawling bush. Its roots are popular as toothbrushes. It's has berries and some people eat them but they taste awful so I leave them for the birds.

Moringa peregrina: this plant grows in the mountains it's seed oil used to be collected and sold. It's medicinal and cosmetic.

As you can see there's more than enough here to incorporate into any permaculture project in Arabia. Tho a lot of these plants are not cultivated and I'm not sure how easy they'd be to grow (a lot are native to mountains and won't be used to sea level shenanigans) . Im keeping an eye out for them and planning to grow them in my yard for now (those I can find)

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J20170803-0031—Agave shawii—RPBG—DxO by John Rusk Via Flickr: Agave shawii—Agave de la costa. Included in the CNPS Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants on list [2.1] (rare, threatened, or endangered in CA; common elsewhere). Agave shawii just makes it across the border at Border Fields State Park although this agave is quite common in Baja California. This population is in extreme danger because of activity aimed at stopping illegal border crossings. There is also a population at Point Loma although the provenance of this patch is questionable. Our Agave shawii blooms nearly every year now. Photographed at Regional Parks Botanic Garden located in Tilden Regional Park near Berkeley, CA.

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Agave Shawii. Coastal Agave, California and Baja California, now “very rare and critically endangered.” Transactions of the Academy of Science of Saint Louis. 1878.

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