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  • The Lower Nubra valley is wilder and narrower than the Upper, its apricot orchards more luxuriant, its wolf-haunted hippophae and tamarisk thickets more dense.

    Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

  • These are deep, fierce, variable streams, which have buried the lower levels under great stretches of shingle, patched with jungles of hippophae and tamarisk, affording cover for innumerable wolves.

    Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

  • The Lower Nubra valley is wilder and narrower than the Upper, its apricot orchards more luxuriant, its wolf-haunted hippophae and tamarisk thickets more dense.

    Among the Tibetans 1867

  • These are deep, fierce, variable streams, which have buried the lower levels under great stretches of shingle, patched with jungles of hippophae and tamarisk, affording cover for innumerable wolves.

    Among the Tibetans 1867

  • Mountains; and in the more northern latitudes these groves often consist of berry-bearing bushes -- such as wild currants, bird and choke cherries, the _amelanchier_ and _hippophae canadensis_.

    Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Mayne Reid 1850

  • : Applying the oil from sea buckthorn (hippophae r ...

    Public marks 2010

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