Haloxylon salicornicum ( Hamada elegans )

Woody, Perennial, very straggly and spreading, up to 100cm or more in height, usually with accumulated sand around the base, forming hummocks. Stems blue-green when young, greyish when old, cylindrical with leaves reduced to small scales cupping stem joints that can be hairy. Inflorescence minute, yellow, in dense, 8cm long spikes from leaf nodes of terminal or lateral branches. Fruit winged, with overlapping papery wings in white, pink, dark red, brown or purple, 0.6cm across.