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Latin (Botanical) name: Ambrosia maritima L.

Family: Asteraceae, Compositae.

Common name: Damaseisa, Ragweed, Ambrosia, Ragweed common, Demsees, Damsees, Dimsees, Ghobbeira, Ghobbaira-a, Na’na, Tannoon.

Origin: Egypt

Plant description:

COMPOSITAE Giseke. All, or at least the central flowers tubular. Tubuliflorac. Heads of 2 kinds, male and female. The latter 1-2 flowered and later transformed into a spinescent fruit. Leaves finely dissected.

AMBROSIA L. Heads small, yellow, in leafy spikes, obove many-flowered male heads, below 1-flowered female heads, later forming a small, angled, prickly fruit. Sterile specimens resembling Verbena supine but more hairy than this one.

AMBROSIA MARITIMA L. : A richly branched, grey-hairy herb with finely dissected, fragrant leaves. (Ann., sometimes Per.).

Source: STUDENTS’ FLORA OF EGYPT second edition, by VIVI TÄCKHOLM, D. Sc. (Stockholm) Professor of Systematic Botany, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. Published by Cairo University. Printed by COOPERATIVE PRINTING COMPANY Beirut, 1974.

Propagation: Fruits (seeds). Annual or perennial in Upper Egypt.

Last Update February 9^th, 2002.

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