Podonosma orientalis, commonly known as golden drop, is a species of flowering plant resembling a low-lying shrub of the Boraginaceae family, first described by Carl Linnaeus.

It is endemic to Turkey, the Eastern Mediterranean, namely, Syria, Lebanon, Israel (Palestine), and stretching as far as the woodlands and desert steppes of Jordan, Iraq, and in Western and Southern Iran.

[2] In Jordan, it is found in Wadi Zerka Main (Moab) on the hard limestone,[2] and grows also in the Nubian Sandstone gorge at Petra in Transjordan.

Arabs in Palestine would break off leaves and stems from the plant and form them into a wad for scouring pots and pans, or for burnishing copperware or silverware.

[4] In Arab folk-medicine, macerated leaves of the plant, mixed with wheat flour, were placed on a heated compress and applied to the head in order to relieve migraine headaches.