Mostly a shrubby tree with reddish brown bark. Flower clusters on current season's growth. Sepals, petals and stamens 5, the sepals toothed and petals obovate; spring and summer. Bracts longer than the flower stalks. [T.pentandra Pall.]

This species has become naturalised in Victoria and South Australia.

E Europe, C & E Asia

Williamstown (Williamstown Botanic Gardens).

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.