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Myrica
Myrica 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. Some botanists split the genus into two genera on the basis of the catkin and fruit structure, restricting Myrica to a few species, and treating the others in Morella.
Common names include bayberry, bay-rum tree, candleberry, sweet gale, and wax-myrtle. The generic name was derived from the Greek word μυρίκη (myrike), meaning "fragrance".
3 branches of this genus, most-observed first
bog myrtle
speciesMyrica gale
Sierra sweetbay
speciesMyrica hartwegii
Myrica mildbraedii
speciesMyrica mildbraedii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.211
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.213
On Medical Materials in Six Books
Dioscorides · 1550 · p.129
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.1027
De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.135
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.211
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.326
Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.349
History of Rare Plants of Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1576 · p.35
History of Rare Plants Observed in Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1583 · p.34
Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.58
Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.58
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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 49033.