Small (young) trees c.2.5m high. Foliage grass-green. Flowers pink, 5-merous, in terminal panicles. Petals c.1.3mm long, broadly elliptic-obovate. Anthers pink. Ovary and style dark red. Disc dark red, lobed, with stamens inserted on outside. Cultivated as Tamarix gallica but stamen insertion wrong.