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Mesua
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Mesua

Mesua is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Calophyllaceae, native to tropical southern Asia. Common names include ironwood (shared with many other plants) and rose chestnut.

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9 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Ceylon ironwood

speciesMesua ferrea

Mesua thwaitesii

speciesMesua thwaitesii

Mesua pulchella

speciesMesua pulchella

Mesua purseglovei

speciesMesua purseglovei

Mesua pustulata

speciesMesua pustulata

Mesua planigemma

speciesMesua planigemma

Mesua nuda

speciesMesua nuda

Mesua nivenii

speciesMesua nivenii

Mesua kochummeniana

speciesMesua kochummeniana

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Mesua in On the Names of Plants

On the Names of Plants

Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.587

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 185954.