Tamarix

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Tamaricaceae

• Scientific Name

  Tamarix

• Description

  Description - Shrubs or trees, with irregularly and widely branching stems, the wood firm. Leaves small, scale-like, clasping or sheathing. Flowers in dense spikes, racemes or panicles. Sepals 4 or 5, rarely 6, distinct. Petals white or pink, inserted under the lobed disk, distinct. Stamens 5-10; filaments not adnate to the corolla. Stigmas 2-5, short. Seeds numerous. Endosperm wanting. [Latin name.] About 60 species, of the Old World, the following typical.