KKL-JNF Forests: A Tree for Every Month





	In folk medicine the chewed fruits are used as medicine for heartburn, ulcers, toothache, stomachache and other ailments. Top

	Young leaves, flowers and fruits of terebinths are red, creating scarlet patches in Israel’s native woodland. The fruits are edible and dispersed by birds.
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	The terebinth is part of the terebinth-oak association, the major plant association in Israel’s Mediterranean region. Top

	Absalom, King David’s rebellious son, became entangled by his long hair in the branches of a terebinth when fleeing from his father: “And Absalom was riding upon his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great terebinth, and his head caught hold of the terebinth, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; Samuel 2, 18. Top

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