The Sinai might be a desert, but its high mountains support rich scatterings of plants. About 800 different species are found here - near half Egypt's total - with many originating in faraway places like Iran and Afghanistan.

Faidherbia albida, Vachellia seyal, Vachellia tortilis, and Vachellia gerrardii can be found growing wild in the Sinai Desert and the Jordan River Valley. In the Exodus, the ancient Israelites were commanded to use "shittah wood" to make various parts of …

Jul 30, 2013 · It is an evergreen tree, 3 to 5.5 m high, with spiny branches carrying yellow flowers; its wood is very useful for building purposes. The acacia below is in the Wadi el-Tor in the Sinai Peninsula between the Gulf of Suez and Mount Sinai.

Nov 9, 2017 · Palm trees Since palm trees need water to thrive, we encountered them only a few times along the Sinai trail. The first ones that we discovered were perched on a slope of Wadi El Melha (the Salty Wadi), at a junction of granite and sandstone mountains which, due to the different minerals involved, allows for water to be withheld on the ground.

Feb 24, 2022 · These visual stories illustrate the blood-red mountains, animals in natural repose and habitat, solitary trees and flowers, and fugitive strips of water, conveying stark beauty and enormous vulnerability, an abundance of life yet utter, devastating peace.

Jan 6, 2016 · Several species of acacia were common and accessible on the Sinai peninsula, but only Acacia raddiana is suitable for construction. This thorny tree has an impressive umbrella shape: a single trunk with a broad and flat crown. The bark is brown-reddish and the leaves are small to conserve water.

Three species grow in the Land of Israel in the desert and one rare species in the Mediterranean region. In large areas of the desert lands of the Negev and Sinai, acacia trees are the only trees. More than 20 ornamental species, originating from Africa and Australia, are also grown in …

Jul 6, 2010 · This tree is located in the Sinai peninsula, only a few dozen miles from Jebel Musa, the traditional location of Mount Sinai. The observation is made in Picturesque Palestine (1882) that the acacia seyal tree is the “only timber tree of any size in the Arabian Desert” (4: 53).

Dec 5, 2011 · There are 28 endemic species in Sinai, of which 25 occur in the mountainous districts of Sinai. The foothills of eastern Sinai and the coastal area of the Gulf of Elat have a savanna-like vegetation and support thermophilous Sudanian trees and …

Jan 5, 2019 · In the Arava Desert and in the Sinai itself, acacias are ubiquitous, and it is the only tree that could be a resource for carpentry of any kind. But Rashi, the 11 th century French sage, asks...