The Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi has announced the introduction of the release tree, which is present in the state in a very rare and rare way within its programs for the conservation and reproduction of important local plants and attempts to propagate them with seeds and seeds if available starting from the autumn.
The authority recorded and documented the presence of only one tree in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, specifically within one of the rock formations in the area of Malakat, east of Al Ain, near the border with the Sultanate of Oman within a region surrounded by a difficult network to enter, which contributed to providing protection for the last tree of this type in the emirate, and some People from the tweezers of the tree's age, with more than 100 years, who remember the use of its delicate branches as an oud to darken the eye, which is called in both the standard Arabic language and the local dialect "Al-Maroud".
The General Secretary of the Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi, Sheikha Salem Al Dhaheri, said: "The authority is in the process of preparing an in-depth study on the current state of the tree and preparing a conservation plan for it to ensure its permanence. The authority will also work with scientific research centers in local universities to make attempts to multiply them by tissue and measure success, and in If successful in breeding, rehabilitation operations of this species will take place at selected sites of its natural habitats.
The Sarh tree, which was registered in the UAE only in Ras Al Khaimah, is an evergreen tree with a height of approximately 8 meters with small oval leaves of leather texture and it is dense on the branches, which gives the tree a dense spherical vegetative crown that secures shade perfectly when its growth is complete . Its single radial flowers form in January and February and turn into small horny fruits that ripen in March and April.
The Sirh tree is one of the trees with African spread, which seeps in its spread in low borders to the Arabian Peninsula in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Palestine, the Republic of Yemen, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Sultanate of Oman and the United Arab Emirates. Both the Sultanate of Oman and the Emirates represent the global eastern border for the spread of this species, as it stands in it and does not exceed it east.