Tamarix canariensis

Common Name: Canary Island tamarisk

Family: Tamaricaceae

Common Synonyms: none

USDA Hardiness Zone: 5 to 10

Growth Habit: Shrub or small tree

Origin: Africa and Europe

FISC Category: -

FDACS Listed Noxious Weed: No

Introduction Date: Earliest Florida herbarium specimen from 1933

IFAS Assessment:

• North: Not Assessed
• Central: Not Assessed
• South: Not Assessed

Description

Deciduous, multi-stemmed shrub to 5 m tall with long tap (to 30 m) and lateral roots (to 50 m). The leaves are minute and scale like, closely resembling the reduced leaves of cedar trees (Juniperus spp.). Foliage turns golden-orange in the fall. Attractive pink flowers are born in racemose inforescences at the terminus of green branches of the current year.

Habitat

Coastal berms, beach dunes, and spoil islands

Comments

No weed risk analysis has been done.

Control Methods

• Manual: Manual: hand pull seedlings.
• Chemical: Cut stump (50% to 100% undiluted triclopyr amine in water) OR (25 to 100% triclopyr ester in oil). Basal bark (20-30% triclopyr ester in oil) on young trees without well-developed bark.
• Biological: The release of the saltcedar leaf beetle (Diorhabda carinulata) from China has made significant impacts on many populations of saltcedar.

Control Notes

NA

References

http://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/52486

Invasive Species Compendium (http://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/52486)