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Shiro TSUYUZAKI
Plant community ecology / Environmental conservation

Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

(Update on Janurary 14 2010)

Salt cedar
Tamarix tenuissima Nakai [Tamaricaceae]

Gyoryu (ギョリュウ, 御柳)

Lifeform: deciduous small tree
Distribution: central and southern China (exotic to Japan)
Habitat: dry, saline soils (probably in the original regions)


Tamaricaceae

Four genera (controversial): no species are native to Japan

Hololachna
Myricaria
Reaumuria
Tamarix

Tamarix L.

50-60 species are distributed in Eurasia and Africa. All species in this genus are not native to Japan


Tamarix tenuissima in Hokkaido

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[Left] a transplanted tree. [Center] a shoot with leaves and flowers. [Right] close-up of inflorescences. The leaf looks like a needle leaf. In front of GSEES, HU, on June 19 2010.


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