Oranges and lemons belong to its more southern parts, where it verges on Babylonia.

The olive clothes the flanks of Zagros in places.

Besides these rarer fruits, Assyria has chestnuts, pears, apples, plums, cherries, wild and cultivated, qinces, apricots, melons and filberts.
The commonest shrubs are a kind of wormwood--the _apsinthium_ of Xenophon--which grows over much of the plain extending south of the Khabour--and the tamarisk.

Green myrtles, and oleanders with their rosy blossoms, clothe the banks of some of the smaller streams between the Tigris and Mount Zagros; and a shrub of frequent occurrence is the liquorice plant.

Of edible vegetables there is great abundance.