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SCIENTIFIC NAME
COMMON NAME
THUMBNAILS
Kingdom Plantae
Sub Kingdom Tracheobionta (vascular plant)
Superdivision Spermatophyta (seed plant)
Division Magnoliophyta (flowering plant)
Class Magnoliopsida (dicotyledon)
Order Violales
Family Tamaricaceae
Genus Tamarix
Species gallica
Classification L.
Common Name french tamarisk

Distribuzione Southern and western Europe up to North Morocco (France, Spain, Balearic Islands, Corsica, Italy, Sicily). It is naturalised in North America.
Physical Characteristics it is both arboreal and frutescent, up to 6-7 meters high, deciduous; it has a grey ridged bark. Branches are slender and flexible, sometimes cernuous. Alternate, lanceolate, very small, glaucous green leaves. Small, white or pink flowers, gathered in racemes, they are born on small branches of the last year and appear together with leaves. It flowers from April to June. The fruit is a dehiscent capsule and contains seeds with a tuft of hair.
Notes it reproduces by vegetative propagation (by adventitious roots or submerged stems), or sexually. Each flower can produce thousands of seeds contained in a capsule and provided with a tuft which allows them to be dispersed by the wind. Seeds can be dispersed by water too. Seedlings need a long soil saturation for establishment.
Habitat coasts, brackish waters, dunes, pebbly shores of streams.

Sources  
References Floraguide Espana
National Park Service
Web References http://floraguide.es/
http://www.nps.gov/
Source of the photo http://217.58.198.67/prmenu/ctnatura/Simeto/SIM_TAM.html

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