Tamarix ramosissima seed
LATIN NAME: TAMARIX RAMOSISSIMA
COMMON NAME: Salt Cedar
Along the dry riverbeds of Europe and Asia, the salt cedar grows as a graceful, open, deciduous shrub or small tree with the slender, reddish-brown twigs clothed in tiny, scale-like, grey-green leaves and the long, feathery plumes of small, pink flowers that open through the summer. The herb steadily grows into a rounded crown, with a mature height of 5-10 metres. Full sun suits it best, with deep, fertile ground.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The salt cedar comes up in the studies of the desert riverbank shrubs, its feathery pink plumes and its salt tolerance keeping it in view in the work on the erosion control of the arid waterways and the adaptable shrubs of the dry regions. The research looks at the way the scale leaves shed the salt, the pink plumes open through the heat, and the seed biology of the tiny, plume-tufted seeds.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
In the dry garden and the erosion bank, the salt cedar makes the billowing, pink-plumed bush that stands the fiercest heat and the saltiest ground. The wind-borne seeds travel far along the watercourses, and the shrub makes the fine windbreak, the dryland shrub and the bank holder of the hot, dry place. It is a shrub for the open, sunny, dry and free-draining ground.
To grow the Salt Cedar from seed, sow the plume-tufted seeds at once on the surface of moist soil.
Sow the plume-tufted seeds at once on the surface of moist soil, and keep the young shrubs in the open, sunny spot. The pink plumes open through the summer.
LATIN NAME: Tamarix ramosissima
COMMON NAME: Salt Cedar
The salt cedar is a handsome, upright, fine, deciduous shrub or small tree of the dry regions, and its fine, scale-like, grey-green leaves and its long, dense, feathery plumes of the many small, pink flowers have made it a valued and useful plant of the dry and the salty places. It builds up into an upright, leafy clump, up to a metre tall. It is a species of the flowering shrub in the tamarisk family, and it is native to the dry and the salty regions of the Eurasia, while it grows in the dry, salty places, and it is known as the salt cedar.
The salt cedar belongs to the tamarisk family, Tamaricaceae, and it is a species of the upright, fine, deciduous shrub or the small tree, native to the dry and the salty regions of the Eurasia, while it grows in the dry, salty places, and it is known as the salt cedar. It is prized for its long, dense, feathery plumes of the small, pink flowers.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The salt cedar has a real and distinguished place in the research. It has been studied in the ecology and the land restoration, since its fine, hardy growth and its remarkable tolerance of the dry, salty and the windy places have made it a valued plant in the fixing of the shifting sands and the dry ground, and researchers have examined its growth and its role, while its value in the restoration of the dry lands has drawn attention in the international ecological and land-use press as a plant of the dry regions. The plant has also been studied in the botany and the ecology, since it is a native of the dry and the salty regions of the Eurasia, and its relationships, its distribution and its role in the wild have been examined, while the ecology of the dry-land plants has been of continuing interest, and its fine, scale-like leaves have been of interest to the botanists. The species has also been studied in the horticulture of the dry garden, since it is a fine, feathery, pink-plumed shrub of the dry garden, and researchers have examined its growth and its cultivation, while the growing of the salt cedar in the dry, sunny places has been of continuing interest, and its fine, feathery plumes have been of value. For a shrub of such hardy value, the salt cedar has a rich and continuing record of study.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
Ecologically, the salt cedar is a generous shrub of the dry garden. Its long, dense, feathery plumes of the small, pink flowers feed the bees and the many insects, and its fine, dense, leafy growth gives a fine cover and a shelter to the birds, while its hardy, deep-rooted form helps to hold the shifting sands of the dry regions.
Its economic value is real. The salt cedar is prized for its fine, hardy growth and its remarkable tolerance of the dry, salty places, and its value has drawn attention in the international ecological and land-use press as a plant of the dry regions, while its fine, feathery, pink-plumed form has also made it a valued shrub of the dry garden. For a grower, the salt cedar is an easy and hardy shrub, and for a gardener of the dry regions it brings a feathery, pink-plumed, hardy shrub to the dry garden. The seeds are easy to start — press them gently into the surface of moist, free-draining soil, keep them lightly watered, and theyll be sprouting readily, growing on into a feathery, pink-plumed, hardy shrub.
Grow in average, dry to medium, well-drained soil in full sun. Best in sandy loams. Wide range of soil tolerance including somewhat poor soils of low fertility. Valued plant for sea shore areas because of tolerance for salt. Prune as needed in late winter to early spring. This is a rapid-grower that blooms on new wood. Can be pruned back hard, including to within several inches of the ground, in late winter each year (as with Buddleja) in order to keep plant compact and to promote better form and growth
Tamarix ramosissima, known as tamarisk, tamarix or saltcedar, is a graceful open deciduous thicket-forming shrub or small tree typically growing 6-15’ tall. This is an unusual plant because it features fine-textured, juniper-like foliage, but is neither evergreen nor coniferous, producing true flowers. Its primary ornamental features are: (a) reddish, slender, arching branchlets, (b) pale gray-green scale-like leaves and (c) plumes (dense feathery racemes) of pink 5-petaled flowers over a long early to mid-summer bloom. Fruits are dry capsules that split open when ripe to release abundant seeds. Although native to Europe and Asia, tamarisk has escaped cultivation and naturalized along floodplains, riverbanks, ditches, marshes, waste areas and roadsides in many areas of the West, Southwest and Great Plains. In warm winter climates, it has become a noxious weed, typically forming dense impenetrable thickets that often crowd out native plants. It has become the subject of a number of eradication programs, particularly in watersheds of the Southwest where it tends to colonize along rivers and streams, dropping seed into the water for distribution and further colonization downstream