Tamarix senegalensis Dc.

Species

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Tamaricaceae > Tamarix

Characteristics

A shrub. It grows 2-3 m high. It has many branches and they hang down. They are pale green. The leaves are alternate and reduced to scales. They are almost triangle shaped and 1-2 mm long. The flowers are very small and white or pink. They are in groups 20 cm long at the ends of branches. The fruit is a small cone shaped capsule.
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A twiggy shrub or small tree
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 2.5 - 3.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in sandy soils of high salinity. It grows in coastal regions. It grows in the Sahel.
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Saline soil, sandy desert and sea-shore; dry savannah; wadis; often forming extensive, pure stands
Of maritime and dry inland sandy situations.
Light -
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-12

Usage

Uses animal food environmental use food food additive fuel gum material medicinal poison vertebrate poison wood
Edible saps stems
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 50
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 21
Germination luminosity light
Germination treatment -
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Leaf

Tamarix senegalensis leaf picture by Maarten Vanhove (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Tamarix senegalensis flower picture by Maarten Vanhove (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Tamarix senegalensis world distribution map, present in Anguilla, Bahrain, Cabo Verde, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Greece, Israel, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Sri Lanka, Morocco, Mauritania, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Senegal, Somalia, Chad, Tanzania, United Republic of, and Yemen

Conservation status

Tamarix senegalensis threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:828214-1
WFO ID wfo-0000459439
COL ID 7BJ3J
BDTFX ID 167050
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Tamarix senegalensis Tamarix nilotica Tamarix arabica Tamarix nilotica var. arabica Tamarix gallica var. nilotica