Family Tamaricaceae, Tamarisk Family, משפחה אשליים
Shrubs, subshrubs, or trees. Leaves small, mostly scale-like, alternate, estipulate, usually sessile, mostly with salt-secreting glands; flowers usually in racemes or panicles, rarely solitary, usually hermaphroditic, regular; calyx 4- or 5-fid, persistent; petals 4 or 5, free; stamens 4, 5, or more numerous; the ovary is positioned superior and consists 2-5 carpels; fruit, conic capsule; seeds numerous, hairy throughout or awned at apex.
