{"id":13593,"date":"2020-11-10T10:09:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T10:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/tamarix-nilotica-ehrenb-bunge\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T17:57:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T17:57:57","slug":"tamarix-nilotica-ehrenb-bunge","status":"publish","type":"species","link":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/species\/tamarix-nilotica-ehrenb-bunge\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamarix nilotica (Ehrenb.) Bunge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small tree or shrub, evergreen, hermaphrodite, up to 9 m in height, irregular in shape, with sparse foliage. Trunk \u00b1 erect, with brown or reddish-brown fissured bark, at least in older specimens. Branchlets of the current year papillose. Leaves (2-3 mm) alternate, sessile, squamiform, triangular-lanceolate, with an acute tip, from deeply auriculate to amplexicaul at their basal half. Leaf blade with small salt secreting glands, \u00b1 visible depending on the salinity of the habitat. Racemes 10-50 \u00d7 4-5 mm, densely covered in flowers. Flowers pentamerous, with 5 petals, 1.5-2 mm, elliptic to ovate-triangular. Staminal disk hololophic. Fruit an ovoid capsule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","short_name":"Tamarix nilotica","name_html":"<strong>Tamarix <\/strong><strong>nilotica <\/strong>(Ehrenb.) Bunge","short_description":"","common_names":"<em>T. mannifera <\/em>(Ehrenb.) Bunge, <em>T.<\/em> <em>gallica<\/em> var. <em>mannifera<\/em> Ehrenb., <em>T. arabica<\/em> Bunge.","other_name":"<em>Eng.<\/em>: Manna-tamarisk tree.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Spa<\/em>.: Taray del man\u00e1.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Fre<\/em>.: Tamaris.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Ara<\/em>.: Tarfa, tarfaya, fersig, afersi.","flowering":"August to May and rarely July.","fruiting":"October to April.","habitat":"Salt marshes and deserts, wadis, oases, fields, coastal areas of the Red Sea.","distribution":"Saharo-Arabian and SE Mediterranean distribution. In Africa, from Libya and Egypt to Somalia. In Asia, in Palestine, Israel, Jordan and the Arabian Peninsula. In Egypt it is a common species in saline and sandy areas, both inland and littoral areas.","observations":"The bite of a cochineal (<em>Coccus maniparus<\/em>) produces in this tree an exudate rich in sugars that has been refered by some authors as the biblical manna.","conservation":"A common and widely distributed species; it is not considered threatened. Currently, it is listed in the <em>IUCN Red List of Threatened Species <\/em>as Least Concern (LC) at a global level (Akhani, 2014).","genus":false,"images":false,"map_legend":"","kml":false,"zone_1":"","zone_2":"","zone_3":"","zone_4":"","zone_5":"","zone_6":"","zone_7":"","zone_8":"","zone_9":"","zone_10":"","zone_11":"","zone_12":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.6.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tamarix nilotica (Ehrenb.) 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