Halophyte plants use a sacrificial salt leaf. They concentrate excess salt into a specific leaf, then cut it loose when it reaches capacity.
The mammalian equivalent would likely be salt hairs.
The mammalian equivalent would likely be salt hairs.
It can grow in seawater, brackish water, or effluent from other agriculture or aquaculture. We should be growing more of it.
Atriplex genus are amaranths called "saltbush"; many are edible directly or usable as livestock forage. Atriplex hortensis is a leaf vegetable, like spinach, often paired with sorrel.
Tetragonia tetragonoides is "sea spinach" and has been cultivated as a leaf vegetable.
Attalea speciosa is an oil palm tree.
Anemopsis californica or "yerba mansa" is used as a medicinal herb.