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Coinwort Snowberry

Gaultheria nummularioides

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Himalaya to SC. China, Sumatera to Lesser Sunda Is. (Bali)
Climate
temperate

About

Gaultheria nummularioides is a species of plant in the family Ericaceae. It is distributed across India, Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan, Indonesia, and Southwest China (Tibet, Yunnan, and Sichuan). The plant grows in areas between 1,700 and 3,000 m (5,600 and 9,800 ft) above sea level, and grows better on rocky mountainsides and weed tree forests. This species has been cultivated as an ornamental in Britain, the United States, and elsewhere for some decades.

Other Gaultheria plants

Gaultheria puradyatmikae · Wintergreen · Gaultheria adenothrix · Bush Snowberry · Wax Berry · Scarlet Snowberry · Gaultheria cuneata · Mountain Snowberry · Gaultheria floribunda · Gaultheria fragrantissima · Copperleaf Snowberry · Creeping snowberry

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gaultheria nummularioides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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