Our plant this week is Desert Cotton, which is also known as Kapok Bush. It turns out there is also a Kapok Tree, and that was totally not confusing at all when we were researching this episode. 😵‍💫

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Information provided by:

1. Association of Morphological, Ecological, and Genetic Diversity of Aerva javanica Populations Growing in the Eastern Desert of Egypt by Noha A. El-Tayeh, et al. (2020) https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10030402
2. Desert Plants of Egypt’s Wadi El Gemal National Park by Tamer Mahmoud
3. A Review on the Pashanbheda Plant “Aerva javanica” by Vinit Ravjibhai Movaliya and Maitreyi Zaveri (2014)
4. https://www.purdue.edu/hla/sites/famine-foods/famine_food/aerva-javanica/
5. https://www.enature.qa/specie/tuwaim/
6. Phytochemical Analysis of Anastatica hierochuntica and Aerva javanica Grown in Qatar: Their Biological Activities and Identification of Some Active Ingredients by Vandana Thotathil, et al. (2023) https://doi.org/10.3390%2Fmolecules28083364
7. https://www.medicinalplants.doh.gov.ae/en/Encyclopedia-of-medicine-plant-of-UAE/Aerva-javanica
8. https://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Aerva+javanica
9. https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/aerva_javanica.htm
10. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerva_javanica