• Tulipa Clusiana
    This collection represents the first record for Kurdistan and Iraq. The plants grow in the walnut orchards and sometimes on mountain slopes between oak trees in shady places
  • Salix acmophylla Boiss
    The young branches are used locally for making beehives
  • Salix acmophylla Boiss
    The young branches are used locally for making baskets (K barchina)
  • Prunus Microcarpa
    One of the edible wild fruit used as a delicacy. The ripe seed when crushed and eaten causes severe diarrhea, and small amount of it is used to prevent constipation.
  • Pistacia Eurycarpa Yalt
    The dry ripe fruits are bored from two sides and converted into necklaces and worry beads
  • Pilostyles Haussknechtii
    Very rare plant and it is growing on Astragalus. According to the IUCN criteria, B (geographic range) and D (very small and restricted population, this species is critically endange
  • Juglans Regia
    Making special tool (K terok) used for spreading dough over pina in the preparation of local bread,

Mission

KBF works to study and protect the native plants of Kurdistan through scientific research within and outside of the region.