argan-trees

Updated: May 17, 2025

Meanwhile, the bare and uninteresting-looking Iron Mountains were disappearing from view: another ridge, which met them at right angles, spotted with argan-trees, looked in the distance like a tea or coffee plantation on Eastern hills that too faded from sight; and we rode on now through a blaze of flowers, for every hedge flamed pink and yellow, and even the dry thorns were blotted with colour now past fields of mauve poppies and scarlet poppies and stretches of stainless blue.

Isabel Savory - In the Tail of the Peacock