Zygophyllaceae
Desert date
Balanites aegyptiaca
- Family
- Zygophyllaceae
- Genus
- Balanites
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Common names
By language (24)
- Afrikaans
- Enkelgroendoring
- Amharic
- ጓሳ, በደኔ, ጀሞ
- Arabic
- شجرة الثمر الصحراوي, الهجليج, بلح الصحراء, تمر العبيد, تيشط, هجليج, هلج, هليج
- arz
- بلسم مصرى
- Bambara
- Nsɛgɛnɛ
- Bulgarian
- Египетски баланитес
- Chinese
- 埃及香脂树, 埃及香脂樹
- Czech
- Datlovník pouštní
- dag
- Gabliga
- Dutch
- Zeepbesboom
- English
- Desert date, Egyptian myrobalan, Heglig, Jericho balsam, Simple thorned torch tree, Simple-thorned torchwood, Soap berry tree
- Esperanto
- Dezerta daktilo
- Finnish
- Tasankoneulapuu
- German
- Wüstendattel
- Hausa
- Aduwaa
- Hebrew
- זקום מצרי
- Japanese
- エジプトバルサム
- Korean
- 여리고발삼
- Malayalam
- ഓടൽ
- Marathi
- हिंगणी
- Russian
- Баланитес египетский
- Sanskrit
- इङ्गुदवृक्षः
- Swahili
- Mjunju
- Wolof
- Sump
Synonyms
- Agialid aegyptiaca (L.) Kuntze
- Canthium zizyphoides Mildbr. & Schltr.
- Ximenia aegyptiaca L.
Flowers
- In flower
- April (from 44 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Alex G, CC0, from iNaturalist 
FruitPhoto: Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Marco Schmidt, CC BY-SA 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Denis Bastianelli, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Marco Schmidt [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: John Lyakurwa, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: T.K. Naliaka, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Светлана Царахова, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Jui at Indiabiodiversity.org Uploaded by Vinayaraj, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Elliot Greiner, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.