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Myrica cerifera is a small evergreen tree or large shrub native to North and Central America and the Caribbean. Its common names include southern wax myrtle, southern bayberry, candleberry, bayberry tree, and tallow shrub. It has uses in the garden and for candlemaking, as well as a medicinal plant.
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 ...
Myrica / m ɪ ˈ r aɪ k ə / [3] is a genus of about 35–50 species of small trees and shrubs in the family Myricaceae, order Fagales.The genus has a wide distribution, including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America, and missing only from Antarctica and Oceania.
These dwarf varieties are great to mix into perennial beds, to grow in planters, or to use as deciduous hedgerows. Crepe myrtles are a go-to flowering tree for Southern gardens, but not every ...
M. caroliniensis 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, bayberry has scent glands mainly on the leaf undersides and is not markedly fragrant. Bayberry and wax myrtle hybridize. [2] [3] [4]
Myrica californica (California bayberry, California wax myrtle or Pacific wax myrtle is an evergreen shrub or small tree native to the Pacific coast of North America. Description [ edit ]
Myricaceae: bayberry family; Myrica: bayberries; Myrica californica: California bayberry Myricaceae (bayberry family) Myrica cerifera: wax myrtle; southern bayberry Myricaceae (bayberry family) Myrica inodora: odorless bayberry Myricaceae (bayberry family) Myrsinaceae: myrsine family; Ardisia: ardisia trees; Ardisia escallonioides: marlberry ...
Myrica pensylvanica, the northern bayberry, is a species of Myrica native to eastern North America, from Newfoundland west to Ontario and Ohio, and south to North Carolina. It is also classified as Morella pensylvanica. Myrica pensylvanica is a deciduous shrub growing to 4.5 m tall.