#suaeda salsa
Suaeda salsa
Suaeda translates from Arabic سويداء into Swaida, a city in Syria where the species Suaeda vermiculata (Source), while salsa means salted.
Family: Amaranthaceae (Amaranth Family)
Fun Fact: “The species is economically important because its fresh branches have high value as a vegetable, and its seed oil is edible and rich in unsaturated fatty acids. Because it can remove salts and heavy metals from saline soils, S. salsa can also be used in the restoration of salinized or contaminated saline land” (Source). However, “[The} Leaves - raw or cooked have a salty flavour. Seed - cooked whole or ground into a powder. A famine food, it is only used when all else fails” (Source).
Habitat: They are endemic to salt marshes, inland saline soils, and intertidal zones of Northern China.
DSCN5870 _ Red Reef Beach, Panjin, China by Matthew Felix Sun
Via Flickr:
Red Reeds (Suaeda) Beach in Panjin, China In September this year, my sister drove me to Panjin, Liaoning Province, from our home city Shenyang, to see the renown Red Reeds (Suaeda) Beach, where the alkali salt deposit made the suaeda grass amazingly red in the fall.
PANJIN,CHINA 03 by REDANTS ZHANG
Via Flickr:
Panjin,china 03
