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I'm a botanist working at the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens. Specialist on the Mediterranean, Sahara-Arabia and the Caucasus.
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thank u ! can you please email me at ofragman@013.net so I will have your email address.
I cannot find any record in the Hebrew references, but it is a common plant in the Negev Desert in S Israel. I will check also in our herbarium.
Search also under its older name Scilla hanburyi.
http://flora.org.il/en/plants/scihan/
This is probably Prospero hanburyi
I'm so happy they still survive in Sinai, I was sure they got extinct already there.
It walks on Mentha longifolia var. schimperi, called by the Bediun "habag", the best mint !
B. ciliaris and B. linariifolia - are not present in Sinai
in Sinai u have only Blepharis attenuata, edulis was given there by mistakre
Arnebia hispidissima
it is not Erodium, is it Monsonia heliotropoides
