Palestine Flowersزهور فلسطين
Index

The plants, by the names they have here.

نباتات فلسطين البرّية

10 records so far. Each plant has one page under its Arabic name: what it is called, where and when it grows, whether it is eaten, what it carries, and what Israel has done to the people who gather it.

A single scarlet anemone growing from limestone, its centre dark violet ringed in white — Anemone coronaria, الحنون
الحنونAnemone coronaria · hannun
Three cyclamen flowers with swept-back white and magenta petals on curved stems, photographed against black — Cyclamen persicum, بخور مريم
بخور مريمCyclamen persicum · bakhur Maryam
Ancient olive trees with massive hollowed trunks standing in a grove on stony ground — Olea europaea, الزيتون
الزيتونOlea europaea · zaytun
A prickly pear pad bearing a yellow flower with a bee inside it and two ripening fruits — Opuntia ficus-indica, الصبّار
الصبّارOpuntia ficus-indica · sabbar
A caper flower: four white petals below a wide brush of long pink-purple stamens, with a beetle at its centre — Capparis spinosa, الكبّار
الكبّارCapparis spinosa · kabbar
Wild fennel in yellow flower with fine feathery foliage, standing in a green field — Foeniculum vulgare, الشومر
الشومرFoeniculum vulgare · shomar
A pyramidal orchid: a dense cone of magenta flowers on a green stem, with a green bush-cricket climbing it — Anacamptis pyramidalis, السحلب
السحلبAnacamptis pyramidalis · sahlab
A wild carrot umbel: a flat white plate of tiny flowers with a single dark purple floret at the centre and enlarged outer petals — Daucus carota, الجزر البرّي
الجزر البرّيDaucus carota · jazar barri
Wild gladiolus in flower: magenta blooms in a one-sided spike, standing among grasses and cereal stems — Gladiolus italicus, سيف الغراب
سيف الغرابGladiolus italicus · saif al-ghurab
A single Iris haynei flower: three arching upper petals in dark purple, densely veined and dusted with fine pale dots, above a deep maroon lower petal carrying a near-black patch, سوسن فقوعة
سوسن فقوعةIris haynei · susan Faqqu'a

Looking for a plant that is not a record yet, such as za'atar, akkoub, khubeza or maramia? They are answered on the questions page, and every name in Arabic and English is in the names index.