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  • COMMON NAME: pink tamarisk
  • ARABIC: أثل
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Tamarix aucheriana ( Decne ex Walp. ) Baum.
  • SYNONYMS: Trichaurus aucherianus
  • FAMILY: TAMARICACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Umm-Al-Quwain , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Landscape (L)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Sandy Sabkha
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: It can be found in Fujairah in the saline lowlands of the Gulf of Oman.
https://www.floraofqatar.com/tamarix_aucheriana.htm Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Extremely salt tolerant, Ornamental plant, historically known in folk medicine uses.

Large shrub or bush, up to 3.5 meters high, with deep purple to blackish-purple bark. Leaves small, alternate, sessile, fleshy, scale-like, strongly clasping stem. Racemes 2-6cm long. Flowers many, small in size. Petals 5, tiny, pink, obovate-elliptic, imbricate. Stamens 10-13, free, inserted on a glandular, crenate, 10-lobed, fleshy disk. Style very short; stigmas 3. Fruit pink, pyramidal, 3-valved capsule, 4-9mm long. Seeds many, with terminal tufts of hairs.

Flowering from April to October.
Saline regions (sabkhas) and roadsides.
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