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Common names include scentless bayberry, [4] odorless bayberry, odorless wax-myrtle, waxberry, candleberry, and waxtree. It grows in swamps, bogs, pond edges and stream banks. [5] Myrica inodora is an evergreen, monoecious shrub or small tree up to 7 m (23 feet) tall. Leaves are ovate to elliptic, up to 12 cm (5 inches) long, lacking the odor ...
The fruit is a wrinkled purple berry 4–6.5 millimetres (1 ⁄ 8 – 1 ⁄ 4 in) in diameter, with a waxy coating, hence the common name wax myrtle. This species has root nodules containing nitrogen-fixing microorganisms, allowing it to grow in relatively poor soils.
Myrtle is part of the English common name of many trees and other plants, particularly those of the myrtle family (Myrtaceae). Plants called "myrtle" include: [ 1 ] Myrtaceae
M. pensylvanica is similar to wax myrtle, M. cerifera. These plants' leaves and scent distinguish them: wax myrtle leaves have scent glands on both sides and are fragrant when crushed, northern bayberry has scent glands mainly on the leaf undersides and is not markedly fragrant. Northern bayberry hybridizes with both southern bayberry and wax ...
Myrica cerifera is a small tree or large shrub, [3] reaching up to 14 metres (46 ft) tall. [4] It is adaptable to many habitats, growing naturally in wetlands, near rivers and streams, sand dunes, fields, hillsides, pine barrens, and in both coniferous and mixed-broadleaf forests.
The wax coating on the fruit of several species, known as bayberry wax, has been used traditionally to make candles. It was used for that purpose by the Robinson family in the novel The Swiss Family Robinson. [9] The foliage of Myrica gale is a traditional insect repellent, used by campers to keep biting insects out of tents.
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Myrica gale is a deciduous shrub growing to 2 metres (6 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet) tall and 1 m wide. [5] The leaves are spirally arranged, simple, 2–5 centimetres (3 ⁄ 4 –2 inches) long, oblanceolate with a tapered base and broader tip, and a crinkled or finely toothed margin.