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A plant that drinks seawater and calls your garden soil bland.
means A plant adapted to grow in salty soil or water, where most other plants would shrivel and die from the salt.
from Built from Greek parts: 'halo-' from 'hals,' meaning salt, and '-phyte' from 'phyton,' meaning plant — the same 'hals' that salted its way into 'halogen' (salt-former) and 'halite' (rock salt). Scientists stitched the word together in the 19th century, as botany was busy coining Greek-rooted labels for every ecological niche it found.
- salt trick
- stores salt in cells, then sheds the leaf
- habitat
- thrives in salt marshes, mangroves, deserts
- bonus use
- some are edible, like samphire and glasswort
- future crop
- studied to grow food on salty farmland