Credit: Milad Gerami
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Comments: درخت گز_Tamarisk Tree
Credit: Ian Scott
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Comments: The Tamarisk is native to the Holy Land. It was known from biblical times as a wonderful shade tree. Its needles use salt crystals to draw stray moisture from the air in the arid climate. The evaporation of this moisture also helps to cool the air under the tree's spreading boughs. This specimen stands on the site of ancient Ashkalon.
Credit: ד"ר אבישי טייכר
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Comments: Beerotaym tamarisk wood in the Negev
Tamarisk. Tamarix aphylla. אשל ’ešel - Strongs: H815.
From Easton: Tamarisk - Heb. 'eshel (Genesis 21:33; 1 Samuel 22:6; 1 Samuel 31:13, in the R.V.; but in A.V., "grove," "tree"); Arab. asal. Seven species of this tree are found in Palestine. It is a "very graceful tree, with long feathery branches and tufts closely clad with the minutest of leaves, and surmounted in spring with spikes of beautiful pink blosoms, which seem to envelop the whole tree in one gauzy sheet of colour" (Tristram's Nat. Hist.).
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