Thread: Tamarisk: origin of "salt cedar"
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Old 19-06-2003, 08:44 PM
Mike Lyle
 
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Default Tamarisk: origin of "salt cedar"
(Iris Cohen) wrote in message ...
[...]
If you
stand under a large Tamarisk on a hot dry day, the moist air coming from the
leaves is cooling and refreshing. That is why Abraham planted a Tamarisk tree
in Beersheba.
[...]

Thanks for that, Iris. I hope I'll get a chance to see if it works in England!

Mike.
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