MELBOURNE STREET TREES 8
Tamarix parviflora (synonym: T. tetrandra) is a species of tamarisk known by the common name small-flower tamarisk. It is native to southeastern Europe but it is well-known elsewhere, such as western North America, where it is an invasive introduced species, South Africa and Australia. It easily inhabits moist habitat, especially in saline soils. It is a shrub or tree growing up to about 5 meters tall. The branching twigs are covered in tiny linear leaves no more than 2 or 3 millimeters long. The inflorescence is a dense spike flowers 1 to 4 centimeters long. Each tiny flower has four pink petals.
This is a relatively uncommon tree in most gardens and streets of Melbourne except in the seaside suburbs where it is met upon more frequently on account of its resistance to salt-laden wind and saline soils.
This post is part of the Floral Friday Fotos meme.
Beautiful blooms on this tree.
ReplyDeleteYou can almost smell the perfume Nick, no wonder the bees love them.
ReplyDeleteThe flowers are so attractive! What a pity the plant is sometimes invasive.
ReplyDeleteVery lovely!
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Beautiful sequence of shots. Thanks for the invitation to post to your flower meme. At the moment I don't have time to add any memes and I'm having major computer issues so I may not even be blogging for a few days depending on how things go. Happy almost weekend!
ReplyDeleteLovely! If you haven't mentioned how tiny the flowers are, I would have thought it was a giant bee! :-)
ReplyDeletedeux belles macros, et c'est pas toujours facile a faire ;)
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Nick, I've seen a similar plant near the oceans here. I never stopped to figure out why -- makes sense that it is salt resistant. I love the color.
ReplyDeleteThey look so inviting for those birds! And the colors are lovely too.
ReplyDeletePretty, soft, delicate pink in the blossoms. I imagine this attracts butterflies as well.
ReplyDeleteIRIS I played along with Floral Friday this week. To view my share, you will need to scroll down on the blog post a bit.
What a lovely capture of the bee on this lovely flower. Can't wait until we get some spring flowers in Texas. A ways off yet I am afraid
ReplyDeletelooking at the bee, these flowers must be tiny -but beautiful!
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