"P van Rijckevorsel" wrote in message . ..
Mike Lyle schreef
http://internet.cybermesa.com/~bludevil/P6160002.JPG
the attractive name "salt cedar" is given as an alternative.

Sorry: I can't have made myself clear. I was asking about the new name
I've met in the American source I quoted: "salt cedar".

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Actually, there appears to be no such name at this link.
It is all over the net anyway.
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I'm very sorry: I copied the wrong link. Here's the right one:
http://www.cpluhna.nau.edu/Biota/tamarisk.htm

[...]
I guess you will have to go over the American literature of the last 150?
years or so to find where it first appeared.[...]

I could do that, certainly. Meanwhile, I live in hope that somebody
reading this may have some information on its first printed use.

Mike.