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  • COMMON NAME: saltcedar
  • ARABIC: أثل ، طرفه
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Tamarix arabica Bunge
  • SYNONYMS: T. nilotica, T. arborea, T. mannifera, T. gallica var. nilotica Ehranb.
  • FAMILY: TAMARICACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Ajman
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Landscape (L)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs Tree
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/2451454053 Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE.
Extremely salt tolerant up to seawater salinity. Ornamental plant, historically known in folk medicine uses.

A bush or a small tree, up to 3 meters high. Branches slender with brown or red-brown colour. Leaves partially encircling stem with at least a short triangular blade. Recames loose, 1.5-4 cm long, 3-4 mm wide. Pedicels shorter than calyx. Bracts longer than pedicels. Petals about 1.5 mm long, caducous, obovate-oblong, pink to white. Filaments inserted into the deeper notches of the disk; anthers apiculate, pink or sometimes cream-white. Fruit pyramidal, 2.5-5 mm long, reddish-brown, tapering to apex with 3 stigmas. Seeds many, with terminal tuft of hairs. 

Flowering from February to May.
Saline sandy places and along roadsides.
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