Saltcedar
Tamarix ramosissima Ledeb.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 4.6 m
- wide
- 3.7 m
Tamaricaceae
Also called Salt-cedar, Pink tamarisk, Tamarisk, Red tamarisk, Salt cedar
Formerly Tamarix altaica, Tamarix odessana, Tamarix pentandra
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- E. & SE. Europe to Mongolia and W. HimalayaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.5 m to 7.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 1.2 m to 6.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- PinkRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -45.6 °C (USDA zone 2a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Italian
- Tamerice d'estate, Tamerice ramosissima
- Portuguese
- Tamarindo-rosa
- German
- Heidetamariske, Kaspische Tamariske
- Czech
- tamaryšek kaspický
- Spanish
- Pino salado eurasiático
- French
- Tamaris très ramifié
- Kazakh
- Қызыл жыңғыл
- Russian
- Гребенщик ветвистый, Гребенщик многоветвистый
- Arabic
- أرز الملح
- Estonian
- harilik tamarisk
- Polish
- Tamaryszek rozgałęziony, Tamaryszek pięciopręcikowy, Tamaryszek odeski
- Greek
- Αλμυρίκι με ροζ άνθος
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Tamarix ramosissima (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.