The Mediterranean climate of the North African Kingdom of Morocco combines the warmth of the desert with the cool breezes of its coastal area . Morocco ’s unique mountainous ranges and forest landscapes are home to chiliad of different plant species , many of which are unique to the Mediterranean expanse . Beyond their peach , many native flora in Morocco are edible , used for medication or produce materials for traditional slyness .
White Goosefoot
White goosefoot ( Chenopodium record album L. ) grows in the gamey height areas in Morocco and throughout Africa . An yearly flowering works that grows more than 1 beat tall , the young flora and its foliage are boiled and eaten as veg . Its seed are dried and ground into flour for bread - devising or boiled to make hot cereal . Other figure include lamb ’s quarter and pigweed .
Egusi Melon
The egusi melon vine ( Citrullus lanatus ) belong to the Cucurbitaceae family – the same family of all the melons , squash and gourds . Egusi melon grow in Morocco and throughout west , central , east and South Africa . The yield ranges from virulent to sweet in taste and the seeds are jest at and eaten as a bite , brew as a chocolate backup , prime into a node powder or pressed for its oil . Egusi melon vine is also called West African watermelon , egusi watermelon vine and desert watermelon .
Crambe
An annual herbaceous plant that grow more than 1 metre in summit and grow many all right branches , Crambe ( Crambe hispanica ) course grows in Morocco , throughout the Mediterranean and the Middle East . Its main polish is for the harvesting of its source oil used in industrial lubricants and products , as stated by Plant Resources of Tropical Africa ( PROTA ) . The leaves are consumable , and its seeds have topical medicinal property . Its other vulgar name include colewort , Abyssinian leaf mustard and Abyssinian kale .
Esparto Grass
Esparto grass ( Macrochloa tenacissima ) grows in Morocco and the Mediterranean area and its fibers are reap to make newspaper , ropes and baskets . One of Morocco ’s renowned cultural expression is seen through their art of handbasket weaving . As state by the USDA Germplasm Resources Information internet , some of its common names admit halfa , alfa and flechilha .
Bay Laurel
This is the tree that yields the flavorsome embayment leave of absence used in culinary dish . Native to Morocco and the Mediterranean , the redolent evergreen Bay Laurel ( Laurus nobilis ) develop to a predominate 40 foot tall . Its leafage in dry or fresh form are used as spice , teatime , for innate medicinal remedies , and its essential crude is used in soap - making and as an insect repellant . Bay Laurel is also call laurel , sweet bay and bay .
