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snowberries
Symphoricarpos
Symphoricarpos, commonly known as the snowberry, waxberry, or ghostberry, is a small genus of about 15 species of deciduous shrubs in the honeysuckle family, Caprifoliaceae. With the exception of the Chinese coralberry, S. sinensis, which is indigenous to western China, all species are native to North and Central America. The name of the genus is derived from the Greek words συμφορειν (symphorein), meaning "to bear together", and καρπος (karpos), meaning "fruit". It refers to the closely...
14 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Common Snowberry
speciesSymphoricarpos albus

coralberry
speciesSymphoricarpos orbiculatus

Western Snowberry
speciesSymphoricarpos occidentalis

creeping snowberry
speciesSymphoricarpos mollis

Roundleaf Snowberry
speciesSymphoricarpos rotundifolius
Pink Snowberry
speciesSymphoricarpos microphyllus

fragrant snowberry
speciesSymphoricarpos longiflorus

Chenault Coralberry
hybridSymphoricarpos × chenaultii

Doorenbos' Coralberry
hybridSymphoricarpos × doorenbosii

mountain snowberry
speciesSymphoricarpos oreophilus

Symphoricarpos palmeri
speciesSymphoricarpos palmeri

Symphoricarpos sinensis
speciesSymphoricarpos sinensis

sharpleaf snowberry
speciesSymphoricarpos acutus
McKittrick's Snowberry
speciesSymphoricarpos guadalupensis
Where it lives
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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 48528.