Abstract

TAMARIX PLANTS OF ISRAEL AND PALESTINE. A REVIEW

Ashwini Dilip Landge*, Samarth Vijay Bankar, Snehal Vijay Lahare, Onkar Vivek Gunjal, Saniya Raju Shaikh, Simran Shakil Shaikh, Kanchan Sukhdev Ponde

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Abstract

Tamarix growing wild between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan river region (Israel and Palestine) are reviewed in this article mainly for medicinal properties-activities. Yet, some other properties are also presented especially in the discussion part of this review article. The gaps in the numbers of published studies about each one of these twelve species are very large, where some were extensively published while we found no published articles about some others. Activitiesproperties will be listed and highlighted in tables. Documented ethnobotanical uses of these plants will be presented, along with the few review articles that were published about them. In addition to the figures with the structures of selected natural compounds that these species contain, the discussion part of this article will elaborate on indirect activities-properties of these plants. Finally, despite being important botanical subject, the adaptation of these plants to various external conditions, and the impact on the plants on their environment, will be very shortly discussed.

Keywords: Tamarix, Tamarix aphylla, ethnobotany, chemical composition, antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, invasive plants, adaptability, nanoparticles.