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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.

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#2191 - Suaeda australis - Austral Seablite

AKA Redweed.

After we'd moved to a much better hotel immeadiately adjacent to the airport, I walked across the freeway to investigate a few parks I saw on the map. They were dissapointing - large trees, certainly, but lawn underneath, and not even any gardens to investigate. I did find a few halophytes in low, damp, presumably salty area of reclaimed land next to the sports ovals and tennis courts, though. Not immeadiately adjacent to the estuary, but probably very close to the water table.

Suaeda australis is an Amaranth native to Australia, growing to about 90cm tall, wth succulent green or pinkish-red foliage.It grows in coastal, estuarine, and salt marsh areas in all Australian States, where it grows in irrigated areas it's a good indicator of salinity problems.

Mascot, Sydney, New South Wales

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This is the aptly named “Red Beach”, located southwest of Panjin City in China’s Liaoning Province. The red colour is attributed to a genus of plant known as Suaeda, also known as Seablite. Suaeda flourishes in the saline-alkali soil at the mouth of the Liaohe River. The plants appear every year around April or early May, they are originally green in colour. As the plant begins to die it becomes reddish and by September, Suaeda is a brilliant red, covering nearly the entirety of the beach creating a stunning landscape to behold. -Jean Photos courtesy of: Publicity Office of Panjin city, Liaoning province For more photos, head on over here: http://picturescollections.com/red_beach_photography/ For some more information: http://scenery.cultural-china.com/en/113Scenery8538.html

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Suaeda Salsa by heipeeee

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PANJIN,CHINA 03 by REDANTS ZHANG Via Flickr: Panjin,china 03

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This is the aptly named “Red Beach”, located southwest of Panjin City in China’s Liaoning Province. The red colour is attributed to a genus of plant known as Suaeda, also known as Seablite. Suaeda flourishes in the saline-alkali soil at the mouth of the Liaohe River. The plants appear every year around April or early May, they are originally green in colour. As the plant begins to die it becomes reddish and by September, Suaeda is a brilliant red, covering nearly the entirety of the beach creating a stunning landscape to behold. -Jean Photos courtesy of: Publicity Office of Panjin city, Liaoning province For more photos, head on over here: http://picturescollections.com/red_beach_photography/ For some more information: http://scenery.cultural-china.com/en/113Scenery8538.html