Tamarix DIOICA Roxb. ex Roth.
| Synonym : | Tamarix gallica Wight. |
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| Bangla Name : | Lal Jhau, Urusia, Ban Jhau, Nona-gach, Urichiya, Nona Jhau (Sunderbans). |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Tamaricaeae |
| Disease : | - |
| Description : | A small evergreen tree, often gregarious shrub, up to 6 m tall, with green drooping branchlets and minute scale leaves. Leaves minute tubular, clasping the stem, apex acuminate, closely appressed, green with a white margin. Flowers 3 mm diam., dioecious, purple or pink in compact or closely arranged, cylindrical panicled spikes, 2.5-5 cm long, at the end of branches. Fruit a capsule, 4.5 mm long, cone-shaped, 1-celled, 3-valved. |
| Distribution : | In river banks throughout the country. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Kaempferide, tamarixetin, and D-mannitol have been isolated from leaves (Rastogi & Mehrotra, 1990). |
| Uses : | Galls and twigs are used in medicine as an astringent. |
| Habit : | Tree |