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  2. Myrica cerifera - Wikipedia

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    Wax Myrtle can be successfully cultivated as far north as the New York City area and southern Ohio Valley. It also grows in Bermuda and the Caribbean. [4] In terms of succession, M. cerifera is often one of the first plants to colonize an area. [6] The male and female flowers. M. cerifera is an evergreen.

  3. Myrica californica - Wikipedia

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    Myrica californica (California bayberry, California wax myrtle or Pacific wax myrtle; syn. Gale californica (Cham. & Schltdl.) Greene, Morella californica (Cham. & Schltdl.) Wilbur) is an evergreen shrub or small tree native to the Pacific Ocean coast of North America from Vancouver Island south to California as far south as the Long Beac

  4. Myrica - Wikipedia

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    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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    If you lost screening plants that hide you from your new view of the neighbor’s hot tub, I am a big fan of chindo viburnum, tea olive, Fortune’s osmanthus, wax myrtle, loquat, magnolias, most ...

  6. Myrica inodora - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. Bayberry wax - Wikipedia

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    Bayberry wax is an aromatic green vegetable wax. It is removed from the surface of the fruit of the bayberry (wax-myrtle) shrub (ex. Myrica cerifera) by boiling the fruits in water and skimming the wax from the surface of the water. [1] It is made up primarily of esters of lauric, myristic, and palmitic acid. [2]

  8. Myrica pensylvanica - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

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