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Ternstroemia

Ternstroemia
Photo: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Pentaphylacaceae (Pentaphylac family)
Grows as
Tree

About

Ternstroemia is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Pentaphylacaceae, distributed throughout tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The genus, first described by Carl Linnaeus the Younger in 1782, consists of 161 species of shrubs and trees generally known as ternstroemias. Members of the genus are often grown as ornamental plants or are used medicinally.

Other Ternstroemia plants

Ternstroemia bullata · Ternstroemia calycina · Cherry Beech · Ternstroemia cleistogama · Ternstroemia corneri · Ternstroemia evenia · Ternstroemia glomerata · Ternstroemia granulata · Ternstroemia gymnanthera · Ternstroemia howardiana · Ternstroemia landae · Ternstroemia lineata

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

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