Orache

A salt-tolerant shrub with small silver-gray leaves, found in deserts and coastal areas, and its leaves are edible but salty.

Orache
Orache (© Karsten Niehaus (Academic.com)) Orache (saltwort)

About Orache

Family of bushy shrubs, of which numerous species can be found along the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. See Plants (Mallow).

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Job 30:4

They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

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Job 30:4

They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.