Tamarix chinensis

Family: Tamaricaceae
Common Name: five-stamen tamarisk
Symbol: TACH2
Description: Synonym: Tamarix ramosissima (TARA). Large shrubs growing into a small tree, deciduous, usually glabrous throughout; to 8 m tall but often only 4-5 m; branches slender and flexible, younger branches are reddish in color, older bark is brown. Leaves scalelike, triangular-ovate, acute, tending to be scarious on margins, entire, somewhat keeled. Inflorescence terminal, of numerous racemes, each 2-7 cm long. Flowers pinkish-white to pink, 5-merous.