For the flat panel TVs, see Fujitsu Siemens Computers. For the historical city in Asia Minor, see Myrika. For the mythological figure, see Myrica.
Myrica
Female Myrica gale plant
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Clade:
Angiosperms
Clade:
Eudicots
Clade:
Rosids
Order:
Fagales
Family:
Myricaceae
Genus:
Myrica L.[1]
Type species
Myrica gale
L.
Species
See text
Synonyms[2]
Angeia Tidestr.
Cerophora Raf.
Cerothamnus Tidestr.
Faya Webb & Berthel.
Fayana Raf.
Gale Duhamel
Morella Lour.
Pimecaria Raf.
Myrica/mɪˈraɪkə/[3] is a genus of about 35–50 species of small trees and shrubs in the family Myricaceae, order Fagales. The genus has a wide distribution, including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America, and missing only from Australia. Some botanists split the genus into two genera on the basis of the catkin and fruit structure, restricting Myrica to a few species, and treating the others in Morella.[4]
Common names include bayberry, bay-rum tree, candleberry, sweet gale, and wax-myrtle. The generic name was derived from the Greek word μυρίκη (myrike), meaning "fragrance".[5][6]
^"Genus: Myrica L." Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2006-12-14. Retrieved 2010-10-31.
^"Myrica L." Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
^Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607
^Valérie Huguet, Manolo Gouy, Philippe Normand, Jeff F. Zimpfer, and Maria P. Fernandez. 2005. "Molecular phylogeny of Myricaceae: a reexamination of host-symbiont specificity". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution34(3):557–568. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.11.018
^Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants (4 ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 267. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3.
^Μυρίκη was also the Greek name for Tamarix species.
Myrica gale is a species of flowering plant in the family Myricaceae, native to parts of Japan, North Korea, Russia, mainland Europe, the British Isles...
Myrica cerifera is a small evergreen tree or large shrub native to North and Central America and the Caribbean. Its common names include southern wax myrtle...
Myrica esculenta is an tree or large shrub of the tropics. The native range of this species stretches from Northern India (Uttarakhand) to Nepal to southern...
Myrica pensylvanica, the northern bayberry, is a species of Myrica native to eastern North America, from Newfoundland west to Ontario and Ohio, and south...
related to Nageia nagi. Parmar, C. and M.K. Kaushal. 1982. Myrica nagi. p. 49–53. 13 Myrica nagi Thunb. In: Wild Fruits. Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi...
Myrica faya (firetree, faya or haya; syn. Morella faya (Ait.) Wilbur) is a species of Myrica, native to Macaronesia (the Azores, Madeira, and the Canary...
described Myrica aspleniifolia as a different species (with the epithet spelt asplenifolia). In 1763, he changed his mind concerning Myrica aspleniifolia...
Myrica or Myrika, also called Myrikion (Ancient Greek: Μυρικιών) and Therma, was a city and bishopric in Galatia Salutaris (in Asia Minor), known for its...
Myrica caroliniensis is a shrub or small tree native to the coast and coastal plains of southeastern North America. Its common names include bayberry,...
Myrica inodora is a plant species native to the coastal plains on the northern shore of the Gulf of Mexico, in the Florida Panhandle, the extreme southern...
Myrica quercifolia is a species of shrub in the genus Myrica. It is endemic to the Cape Provinces and the North West of South Africa. It is also known...
botanists separate many species from Myrica into a fourth genus Morella. About 55 species are usually accepted in Myrica (with Morella included), one in Canacomyrica...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Myrica hartwegii. Myrica hartwegii, known by the common names Sierra sweet bay and Sierra bayberry, is a species...
for several plants and may refer to: Gaultheria appressa, from Australia Myrica pensylvanica, from eastern North America Pollichia campestris, from eastern...
Calmei is a California-based seller of Myrica rubra fruits founded in 2018. Yunfei Chen grew out trees from seed in 2009 and then grafted on imported trees...
Myrica arborea (sometimes Morella arborea) is a species of plant in the Myricaceae family. A non-legume Nitrogen fixer, it is endemic to Equatorial Guinea...
Bayberry wax – from the surface wax of the fruits of the bayberry shrub, Myrica faya Candelilla wax – from the Mexican shrubs Euphorbia cerifera and Euphorbia...
removed from the surface of the fruit of the bayberry (wax-myrtle) shrub (ex. Myrica cerifera) by boiling the fruits in water and skimming the wax from the surface...
Global Information
