Tamarix gallica

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Plant Characteristics
Habit   shrub

Height: 12 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Width: 10 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10.
Bloom: early summer, mid summer, late summer
Cultivation
Exposure: sun
Features: flowers
USDA Zones: 5 to 10
Flower features: red, pink
Scientific Names

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Read about Tamarix gallica in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Tamarix gallica, Linn. (T. arborea, Sieber, not Ehrenb. T. canariensis, Willd.). Shrub, or small tree with slender spreading branches: lvs. dull to bluish green, closely imbricated, rhombic-ovate, acute or acuminate, keeled, semi-amplexicaul, with scarious margin: fls. white or pinkish, globose in bud, almost sessile, in slender, panicled racemes; petals deciduous; filaments somewhat dilated at the base, inserted between the rounded lobes of the 10-lobed disk; styles 3. May-July. W. Eu., Medit. region to Himalayas; naturalized in S. Texas and N. Mex. Gn. 34, p. 329. Var. indica, Ehrenb. (T. indica, Willd.). With slender, upright branches: lvs. dull green: racemes longer and slenderer: fls. pink, disk obscurely and minutely 10-lobed. Himalayas. Var. narbonnensis, Ehrenb. Racemes short, almost sessile, lateral on the current year's branches. S. W. Eu. Var. elegans, Schelle (T. elegans, Hort.), is a garden form of slenderer habit and with brighter green foliage; blooms somewhat later. CH


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