Low, hairless shrub to about 3 m tall. Leaves 2-2.5 mm long. Flowers with sepals, petals and stamens in 4s densely arranged in clusters 2-3.5 cm long and 4-6 mm wide along the old wood, pale pink. Bracts translucent, longer than the flower stalk. Flower stalk shorter than the sepals; spring.

S &E Mediterranean, N Africa

This is probably the T. gallica of Australian nurseries.

Translucent bracts; short, narrow flower clusters on old wood.

VIC: Ballarat (Ballarat Botanical Gardens); Castlemaine (Castlemaine Botanical Gardens); St Kilda (Catani Gardens).

 

T. tetrandra Willd., which is also sometimes recorded in cultivation in Australia, differs in having black bark (not reddish-purple), petals 2.4-3 mm long (not 1.8-2 mm).

Source: Spencer, R. (1997). Tamaricaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.