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It is also classified as Morella pensylvanica. Myrica pensylvanica is a deciduous shrub growing to 4.5 m tall. The leaves are 2.5–7 cm long and 1.5-2.7 cm broad, broadest near the leaf apex, serrate, and sticky with a spicy scent when crushed.
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 .
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.
Persicaria pensylvanica (N) Persicaria punctata (N) Persicaria sagittata (N) Persicaria virginiana (N) Phaseolus polystachios (N) Phoradendron leucarpum (N) Phragmites americanus (N) Phragmites australis (I) Physalis virginiana (N) Physocarpus opulifolius (N) Pilea pumila (N) Pinus echinata (N) Pinus pungens (N) Pinus resinosa (N) Pinus rigida ...
Myrica caroliniensis is a shrub or small tree adapted to a range of environments from dunes to pocosins, mostly associated with wetlands. [2] [4] [5] In nature, it ranges from Texas to Maryland on the U.S. east coast. It is difficult to distinguish from M. pensylvanica which occurs north to Canada. [5]
Myrica — a genus in the family Myricaceae, with some species reclassified in the Morella genus. The main article for this category is Myrica . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Myrica .
In 1789, Charles Louis L'Héritier placed Linnaeus's original Myrica aspleniifolia in his new genus Comptonia. [7] In 1894, John M. Coulter transferred Linnaeus's Liquidambar peregrina to Comptonia, and treated Linnaeus's Myrica aspleniifolia as a synonym. [6] Comptonia peregrina is now the only extant (living) species in the genus. [5]
Leaves (when young, in April), edible raw as a salad vegetable . Berries (in autumn), edible raw, or made into jellies, jams and syrups, or used as a flavoring [6] Beech: Fagus sylvatica: Europe, except parts of Spain, northern England, northern parts of Northern Europe: Nuts (in September or October), edible raw or roasted and salted, or can ...