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Family: Styracaceae Life
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Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants)
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> Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering
plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Asterids > Order: Ericales
About 11 genera and 160 species, native to the Americas, the
Mediterranean, east and southeastern Asia. Three genera and three species are
cultivated in southern Africa.
Genera cultivated in southern Africa
List from Glen (2002).
Halesia tetraptera (Snowdrop
tree)
Native to SE USA. |
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Pterostyrax hispida
(Oba-Asagara)
Native to China and Japan |
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Styrax japonica (Japanese snowdrop
tree)
Native to Japan, Korea and China. |
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