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Bladdernuts
Staphylea
Staphylea, or bladdernut, is a small genus of 10 or 11 species of flowering plants in the family Staphyleaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The highest species diversity is in China, where four species occur.
17 branches of this genus, most-observed first

American bladdernut
speciesStaphylea trifolia

European bladdernut
speciesStaphylea pinnata

Common Euscaphis
speciesStaphylea japonica

Staphylea ternata
speciesStaphylea ternata

Bumald's bladdernut
speciesStaphylea bumalda

Caucasian Bladdernut
speciesStaphylea colchica

Elegant Bladdernut
speciesStaphylea arguta

Staphylea pringlei
speciesStaphylea pringlei

Chinese Bladdernut
speciesStaphylea holocarpa

sierra bladdernut
speciesStaphylea bolanderi

Staphylea malabarica
speciesStaphylea malabarica

Staphylea ovalifolia
speciesStaphylea ovalifolia

Staphylea cochinchinensis
speciesStaphylea cochinchinensis
Staphylea × elegans
hybridStaphylea × elegans

Staphylea affinis
speciesStaphylea affinis

Staphylea emodi
speciesStaphylea emodi

Staphylea forrestii
speciesStaphylea forrestii
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

Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.827

Complete Treatise on Agricultural Administration
Xu Guangqi · 1909 · p.772

Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.867

Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.348
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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 72372.