" salt cedar "

[Noun]  | "salt cedar" 

1: tamarisk

Origin: 1881 ;

[Noun]  | "tam*a*risk" | \ ˈta-mə-ˌrisk \

1: any of a genus (Tamarix of the family Tamaricaceae, the tamarisk family) of deciduous large shrubs and small trees native to Asia and the Mediterranean region and widely naturalized in North America that have tiny, scalelike leaves and feathery racemes of small, white to pink flowers—called also salt cedar

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English tamarisc, from Late Latin tamariscus, from Latin tamaric-, tamarix;