Pigweed in Qatar
What plants are native to Qatar?
There are 9 trees in Qatar: Prosopis cineraria (Ghaf) an endangered species, Acacia ehrenbergiana (Salam), Acacia tortilis (Samr), Ziziphus nummularia (Sidr), Ziziphus spina-christi (Areen), the two epiphytes: Cocculus pendulus (Kheneiq) and the gymnosperm Ephera foliata (Alanda), the mangrove Avicennia marina (Qarm) and the naturalizedinvasive species Prosopis juliflora (Ghuweif ).