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Frangula
Also called False Buckthorn, False Buckthorns
Frangula is a genus of about 56 species of flowering shrubs or small trees, commonly known as buckthorn, in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae. The common name buckthorn is also used to describe species of the closely related genus Rhamnus in the same family, and also the superficially similar but only distantly related sea-buckthorn, Hippophae rhamnoides in the Elaeagnaceae.
The genus has a near-cosmopolitan distribution, occurring throughout most of Europe and the Americas, large parts of Asia, and the far northwest of Africa; it is absent from Africa south of the Sahara, the Indian Subcontinent, and Australasia.
The European species, alder buckthorn (Frangula alnus) was of major military importance in the 15th to 19th centuries, as its wood provided the best quality charcoal for gunpowder manufacture.
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