Tamarix gallica L. - Tamarisk


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Distribution:
Occasional along or nearby to the coast from Hightown to Banks; Liverpool Festival Gardens Site (SJ38T, S White & MK Brummage, 1998); rare further inland with a single record from Woodlands Road (SD80K, AR Locksley & C Walsh, 2004).

Habitat:
Planted in hedgerows, amenity areas and parks on sandy soils generally nearby to the sea.

Comments:
Neophyte, native to the Mediterranean; long known from the Sefton coast with a record from Ainsdale (SD31B, JD Massey, 1922, LIV).

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