Flora

New Israeli website gets down to the roots of nature’s medicine chest

For the first time, an open-access website called Florapal serves as a botanical encyclopedia of plants native to the Holy Land.

FLORA PALAESTINA’ – 316 native species and over 2,000 uses
 Leptodactylus fallax, a species of frog found in Dominica, also known as the Giant Ditch Frog, or the mountain chicken

Ten species facing extinction require monitoring in 2025, according to conservation group

 YEHUDIYA Nature Reserve.

A total of 140,000 Israelis visit nature reserves over the weekend as weather warms

An illustration of the shallow sea- floor ecosystem in the Ediacaran Gaojiashan  biota, the environment in which Protocodium sinense would have lived 541- million-years ago

Fossil algae predating land flora sheds light on plant kingdom


Oak tree long thought to have been extinct now rediscovered

The tree is in poor condition and in desperate need of conservation. The Morton Arboretum described the tree's trunk as "scarred in fire" and it also "showed signs of severe fungal infection."

Shawshank Oak 521

Flowers for the people brighten Jerusalem

A group of artists finds a unique answer to what a florist can do with all their extra flowers when most weddings and events are canceled.

Florists Mookie Cohen and Sara Winter create a floral installation in downtown Jerusalem while Yitzchok Meir Malek plays piano for cheerful passers-by

A hub of tranquility in Jerusalem

The Jerusalem Botanical Gardens is one such place in Jerusalem.

A water lily seen in the pond of the botanical gardens in Jerusalem

Floraqueen - the way to send flowers internationally

Ron and Maya sat in a traffic jam, their old Fiat huffing and puffing on its way back to Tel Aviv from their first romantic weekend in northern Israel.


In Pictures: Israel in bloom

The famous red poppies has come out as winter slowly morphs into spring in Israel.

Red poppies in the vicinity of the Re’im Junction, Feburary 2019

Two new nature reserves await government approval

"Unfortunately, the process of declaring a nature reserve in Israel is too long and in the end both nature and man pay the price," Goldstein added.

Nature Reserve Tel Hazeka in the Golan Heights