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Erica Tamarisk
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Erica Tamarisk
ative Photo: Prashant Awale
Common name: Erica Tamarisk • Bengali: ছোট বনঝাউ Chota Ban-Jhau • Gujarati: ગજરી Gajri • Hindi: झाऊ Jhau • Kachchhi: લઈ જો ઝાડ Lai Jo Jhad • Kannada: ಹೊಳೆ ಬೈಸೆ Hole Baise • Konkani: झाऊ Jhau, काडशेरणी Kadsherni, सरू Saru • Marathi: झाऊ Jhau, काडशेरणी Kadsherni, सारत Sarat • Odia: ପାଣି ଝାଉ Pani Jhau • Rajasthani: झावरा Javra • Sanskrit: झावुक Jhavuka • Tamil: ஆற்றுச்சவுக்கு Arru-C-Cavukku • Telugu: జానె Dzane, పబ్బస Pabbasa, పెంప Pempa Source: Names of Plants in India
Botanical name: Tamarix ericoides    Family: Tamaricaceae (Tamarisk family)
Synonyms: Trichaurus ericoides, Tamarix mucronata
Erica Tamarisk is a tall shrub with blackish bark, 2-4 m. Leaves are minute scale like, lance-like in shape. Rose-pink flowers, 6-8 mm across, occur in racemes at the end of branches. Racemes simple 5-15 cm long, 8-10 mm broad. flowers 6 mm across, pale rose pink. Flowers have 5 sepals, 2-2.5 mm long, ovate. Petals, 5, free, elliptic to obovate 4-5 mm long, to 4 mm broad, very finely and irregularly denticulate at the margin. Stamens 10, alternating with sepals and petals, the antipetalous stamens somewhat shorter than antisepalous stamens. Flowering: September-December.
Identification credit: Prashant Awale Photographed at Taleran, Maharashtra.
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