Salvadora persica (-راك)

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Salvadora persica

The toothbrush tree is a small tree or shrub with a crooked trunk, seldom more than one foot in diameter, its bark scabrous and cracked, whitish with pendulous extremities. The root bark of the tree is light brown and the inner surfaces are white, the odour is like cress and its taste is warm and pungent. Its fibrous branches have been used as toothbrushes by many Islamic communities — miswaks. Leaves oblong-elliptic to almost circular, 3 x 7 cm, light to dark green, rather fleshy, sometimes with wartlike glandular dots and dense, rather loose hairs; apex broadly tapering to rounded, sharp-tipped; base broadly tapering; margin entire; petiole up to 10 mm long; leaves in opposite pairs. Flowers greenish to yellowish, very small, in loose, slender-branched axillary or terminal panicles, up to 10 cm long. Fruit spherical, fleshy, 5-10 mm in diameter, pink to scarlet when mature, single seeded; seeds turn from pink to purple-red and are semi-transparent when mature. The generic name was given in 1749 in honour of an apothecary of Barcelona, Juan Salvador y Bosca (1598-1681), by Dr Laurent Garcin, botanist, traveller and plant collector. The true specimen of this species came, as the specific name indicates, from Persia.

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Arak – Miswak

Height: 50-75 Cm Ht
Pot Size: V 15 Pot
Spread:to 8m
Origin:Persia
Category: Shrub
Family:Salvadoraceae
Common Name: أراك -راك
Flower Colour:Inconspicuous
Drought Tolerance:High
Salinity Tolerance: High
Sun Tolerance:High
Wind Tolerance:High
Water-Logg Tolerance:High
pH Level:Alkaline
Pest Tolerance:High
Disease Tolerance:High
Growth Rate:Medium
Fragrance:No
Growth Habit:Spreading

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Dimensions 100 cm
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1 Mtr 10 Ltr Pot, 10-15 cm V9 Pot

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