From a book on India’s trees: How the peelu tree, growing in saline soil, sustains desert ecology

The superpowers of the Salvadora trees enable them to tackle all that. Peelu and bada peelu are characteristic of desert and arid lands, although they tend to grow where they are more likely to get some water, such as at the edge of watercourses or rocky depressions, in saline creeks and salt marshes. Peelu trees tend to be of short stature: some are almost shrub-like. Like the Hypocolius, many other peculiar and endangered wildlife species occur alongside the peelu and bada peelu. Among them, many Salvadora trees, too, find a home.