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🏜️ 34 entries · 25 edible · 0 deadly

The plants of Desert

Sahara, Kalahari, Sonora, Australie centrale : cactées, acacias, dattiers, et beaucoup de mythes sur l'eau.

34 entries
Harmless

African Baobab

Adansonia digitata
🍽️💊🏜️🌍
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
Low toxicity

Aloe vera

Aloe vera
💊🍽️🏜️🫒🌴
⚠️ Confusion: Agave (ex. Agave parryi, Agave americana)
Toxic

Apple of Sodom

Calotropis procera
☠️🏜️🌍
Harmless

Australian sandalwood

Santalum spicatum
🍽️💊🦘🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: Desert quandong
Low toxicity

Barrel cactus

Ferocactus spp.
☠️🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: Saguaro
Harmless

Blue Palo Verde

Parkinsonia florida
🍽️🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: Honey Mesquite
Toxic

Candelabra tree

Euphorbia candelabrum
☠️🌍🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: Cactus (due to silhouette resemblance, convergent evolution)
Low toxicity

Cape aloe (Bitter aloe)

Aloe ferox
💊🌍🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: Aloe vera (true aloe)
Harmless

Chia

Salvia hispanica
🍽️🏜️🍁486 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: Other wild salvias (Salvia spp.)
Harmless

Christ's Thorn Jujube

Ziziphus spina-christi
🍽️💊🌍🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
Toxic

Colocynth (bitter apple)

Citrullus colocynthis
☠️🏜️🫒🌍
⚠️ Confusion: Wild / cultivated watermelon
Low toxicity

Creosote Bush (gobernadora)

Larrea tridentata
💊🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: Jojoba
Harmless

Date palm

Phoenix dactylifera
🍽️🏜️277 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
Harmless

Desert bush tomato (kutjera)

Solanum centrale
🍽️🦘🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: Black nightshade
Low toxicity

Desert date (balanites)

Balanites aegyptiaca
🍽️💊🌍🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
Harmless

Desert Quandong

Santalum acuminatum
🍽️💊🦘🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: Desert tomatoes (Solanum genus, e.g., Solanum centrale)
Low toxicity

Eastern prickly pear

Opuntia humifusa
🍽️💊🍁🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
Low toxicity

Ephedra (Mormon tea)

Ephedra nevadensis
🍵💊🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: Field horsetail
Harmless

Gum acacia (Senegal acacia)

Senegalia senegal
🍽️💊🪓🌍🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
Harmless

Honey Mesquite

Prosopis glandulosa
🍽️💊🪓🍁🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
Low toxicity

Hoodia

Hoodia gordonii
☠️🏜️
Low toxicity

Jojoba

Simmondsia chinensis
☠️💊🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: Christ's Thorn Jujube
Harmless

Joshua Tree

Yucca brevifolia
🍽️🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: Soapweed Yucca
Low toxicity

Jumping cholla

Cylindropuntia fulgida
🍽️🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: Prickly pear
Harmless

Kair (leafless caper bush)

Capparis decidua
🍽️🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: Caper bush
Harmless

Mulga

Acacia aneura
🍽️🪓🔥🦘🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: Georgina gidgee (toxic acacia)
Low toxicity

Parry's agave

Agave parryi
🍽️🪓🍁🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: Aloès vrai
Harmless

Pigface (Karkalla / Hottentot Fig)

Carpobrotus spp.
🍽️💊🦘🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous look-alikes
Harmless

Pinyon pine (piñon pine)

Pinus edulis
🍽️🪓🍁🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: Aucune confusion dangereuse connue
Harmless

Prickly Pear

Opuntia ficus-indica
🍽️🏜️🫒16 kcal
⚠️ Confusion: No known dangerous confusion
Harmless

Saguaro

Carnegiea gigantea
🍽️🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: Barrel cactus
Harmless

Toothbrush Tree (siwak/miswak)

Salvadora persica
🍽️💊🏜️🌍
⚠️ Confusion: Desert date (balanites)
Harmless

Umbrella thorn acacia

Vachellia tortilis
🍽️🪢🏜️🌍
⚠️ Confusion: Gum acacia
Harmless

Wattleseed Acacia (elegant wattle)

Acacia victoriae
🍽️🦘🏜️
⚠️ Confusion: Georgina gidgee (toxic acacia)