Botanical Family · Caryophyllales

Tamaricaceae

Tamarisk Family

1 speciesOrder Caryophyllales1+ well-known plants

The Tamaricaceae family (Tamarisk Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Caryophyllales. It is represented by a single species in the SASYA catalogue. That species is a shrub.

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Representative TAMARICACEAE specimen
Representative specimen · Tamaricaceae
Key pattern

Tiny, scale-like leaves densely covering slender, feathery branches on shrubs and trees of arid and saline ground; small, pink or white flowers cluster in dense, feathery plumes, the whole plant frequently coated in a fine crust of salt it exudes.

Excretes excess salt directly through specialised leaf glands, coating the foliage in a visible crust that lets it thrive in soils too saline for most other woody plants.

Notable members

All 1 species in TAMARICACEAE

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