Culpeper 1653 “... hath a notable verme against the rickets, and infirmities of the spleen, provokes the terms.”

Now called T. ramosissima.

Tamarix gallica is thought to be the ‘Tamaris’ of Culpeper and the College Pharmacopeia of 1618.

There are three Tamarix plants in the centre of the garden, all different, so we appear to have three different species. Tamarix gallica is thought to be the ‘Tamaris’ of Culpeper and the College. The ‘manna’ referred to in its popular name is an edible substance produced as a result of insect damage, but, strangely, it is not clear if it is the excretion of scale insects or sap from the plant. It may be the manna mentioned as a food in the Old Testament, but there are other plant contenders