Rheum palaestinum

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Desert rhubarb
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Polygonaceae
Genus: Rheum
Species:
R. palaestinum
Binomial name
Rheum palaestinum

Rheum palaestinum, the desert rhubarb, is a plant indigenous to Palestine, Israel and Jordan with a highly developed system for gathering rainwater.[1][2]

The plant has broad, rigid leaves, with a waxy surface, and channels cut into them that funnel water toward its root, causing deep soil penetration.[3] The wrinkled leaf's unique morphology has been explained as evolving to trap condensed vapor rising from the earth.[4]

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