Those willing to endure a rugged four - hour drive over unpaved Saharan roads and through blinding salt flats will be rewarded with Ksar Ghilane, an otherworldly camp on 25 acres of olive, pomegranate, and
tamarisk trees.
The hotel is not alone in the oasis, a bristling tuft of olive, pomegranate, and
tamarisk trees zapped here and there with pink and white oleander.
Dead
tamarisk trees along the Colorado River and other western waterways.
A seemingly unending thicket of tall, shrubby
tamarisk trees parallels the ditch.
In response, some native birds — like the Southwestern willow flycatcher, which loves dense shrubs along desert waterways — turned to
tamarisk trees to make their nests.
The word means a fragrant gum; and this strongly supports the identification of manna with a sweet substance which is found adhering to
the tamarisk tree, a honey - like sap sucked out by insects and available in greatest quantity in June.
Not exact matches
(Joshua 24:25 - 29) One who has seen, all the way from Korea to Arabia, the persistent continuance of such cult practices as these references indicate can not mistake the meaning of the
tamarisk of Beer - sheba, (Genesis 21:33) the burning bush of sinai, (Exodus 3:2 - 5; Deuteronomy 33:16) the palm -
tree of Deborah, (Judges 4:5) or the
tamarisk -
tree in Jabesh.
And for vast swaths of western rivers,
tamarisks are now the only
tree.
These Old World beetles were imported and released in the early 2000s as a biological control for
tamarisk, a once - beloved Eurasian
tree that now monopolizes vast stretches of western waterways.