camelthorn

The camelthorn is the only common large tree in the region.

Kalahari xeric savanna 2008

In the middle of a hot Kalahari day, Toma stands underneath a camelthorn tree, the only place in the village where there is any shade.

The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

This land is home to the largest succulent plants found anywhere, the giant baobab trees that are sometimes more than two thousand years old, and camelthorn trees, which house the haystacksize communal nests of the weavers.

The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

He then pointed to a scraggy camelthorn tree about one hundred yards away and said, You will live under that tree.

The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

The beginning spiritual landscape is the Kalahari Desert, which has one tree, sometimes depicted as a camelthorn tree and at other times a baobab tree, like the one on the cover of the book.

The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

These include the camelthorn tree, gemsbok (Oryx gazella), sociable weaver (Philetairus socius), and Kalahari lion (Panthera leo).

Kalahari xeric savanna 2008

Outside the cultivation in its arid waste of sand the Hadhramout produces but little; now and again we came across groups of the camelthorn, tall trees somewhat resembling the holm oak.

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

Here and there palm-trees, almond-trees, and the ubiquitous camelthorn are seen interspersed amongst the houses; women in red and yellow garments, with turquoise rings in their ears and noses, peep at you furtively from behind their flimsy doors, and as you proceed up the valley you find several towers constructed to protect the gardens from

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

A large, low moon turned the tops of the plume-grass to silver, and the stunted camelthorn bushes and sour tamarisks into the likenesses of trooping devils.

Soldier Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

A large, low moon turned the tops of the plume-grass to silver, and the stunted camelthorn bushes and sour tamarisks into the likenesses of trooping devils.

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900