Bayberry
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common name for the Myricaceae, a family of trees and shrubs with aromatic foliage, found chiefly in temperate and subtropical regions.
Pacific Wax Myrtle, Pacific Bayberry
Grow these evergreen and deciduous shrubs and small trees for their aromatic foliage and grayish or purple fruits. They like temperate and warm climates. Some species have edible fruit.
Myrica cerifera is commonly found in hammocks, swamps, cypress domes, flatwoods, upland mixed forests, and fresh to slightly brackish marshes throughout Florida. Southern bayberry blooms from spring to fall (Wunderlin, 2003).
Bayberry
Myrica cerifera
MEDICINAL: Bayberry, taken in small doses, increases the vitality of your total body systems, improving circulation. It can also be used as a poultice over varicose veins to strengthen the blood vessels.
Bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica)
Zone 2, 2 m high x 2 m
Lustrous, narrow, green leaves; silver-grey berries in autumn (need both male and female plants to produce berries). Fruit is a food source for songbirds, ducks, pheasants and quail.
BAYBERRY
Herb Trees for Warm Climates. By Robert E. Bond. 1989 J, p 46
BEACH PLUM ...
Northern Bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica): This deciduous to semi-evergreen shrub is more cold hardy than wax myrtle. It grows to a height of 9 feet and similar width. The annual growth rate is 12 to 18 inches.
northern bayberry Myricaceae Morella pensylvanica (Mirb.) Kartesz symbol: MOPE6
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Shrubs - bayberry, barberry, tamarix, euonymus, elaeagnus, privet, sumac, Rosa rugosa, Ilex glabra, honeysuckle and beach plum.
Female flowers of Bayberry, M. pensylvanica
Unripe gale fruits
The origin of the scientific genus name Myrica is Greek myrike [μυρ-κ-] tamarisk (e.g., Tamarix tetrandra ), although I do not understand the connection between the two.
Bayberry
Northern Bayberry Myrica pensylvanica
Bearberry
Bearberry, Kinnikinick Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Beautyberry
Bodinier Callicarpa bodinieri
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Beautybush Kolkwitzia amabilis
Bee-balm ...
Northern Bayberry [English]: Morella pensylvanica
Northern Bayberry [English]: Myrica pennsylvanica
Northern Bayberry [English]: Morella pensylvanica 'Wildwood'
Northern Beantree [English]: Bauhinia carronii ...
Field Marks: This bayberry differs from all others by its aromatic leaves that are dotted only on their lower surface.
Habitat: Bogs, low pinelands, flatwoods, bays, savannas, pocosins.
Habit: Shrub up to 9 feet tall.
COMMON: Northern Bayberry
LEAVES: Alternate, simple, deciduous to semi-evergreen, 1.5 to 4" long, .5 to 1.5" wide, dark green, no fall color
SIZE: 5 to 10' tall, similar in spread
HARDINESS: Zone 3 to 7 ...
Pioneers fashioned candles from the waxy berries and a close relative the northern bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica), has similar berries that are the commercial source of wax for the bayberry candles we burn at Christmastime.
If the plant is a female it will produce grayish white bayberry scented fruits that are covered with a wax which is sometimes used for candle making.
Cultivars of female plants of Northern Bayberry need to be selected not only for heavy fruit set, but for foliage that completely abscises in Autumn, rather than foliage that winterburns and then lingers throughout the Winter, ...
Myrica - Bayberries
Myrica californica - California Bayberry
Myrica cerifera - Wax Myrtle; Southern Bayberry
Myrica inodora - Odorless Bayberry ...
Myrica pensylvanica
(Northern bayberry, Bayberry) Be the first to rate this plant
Hardiness Zones:
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Myrica, from the Latin for the tamarisk tree
gale,
Sweet Gale, from
Other common names include Bayberry, Bog Myrtle, English Bog Myrtle, Dutch Myrtle, Herba Myrti Rabanitini, Pors (Dan, Nor, Swe), Suomyrtit (Fin), Gagelstrauch (Ger), Roid (Gaelic) ...
Myrica pensylvanica
Northern Bayberry
Myricaceae
Located in front of chemistry building by small lake.
Myrica pensylvanica ( Northern Bayberry )
Myrtus communis ( Common Myrtle )
Myrtus communis ( Greek Myrtle ) ...
Northern Bayberry - Grows up to nine feet tall with dense branches and spreads several feet wide. Can be pruned as desired.
Redtwig Dogwood - Grows up to eight feet tall and spreads several feet wide.
The 'Bay Rum,' used as a toilet article, is a tincture scented with the oil of the leaves of an allied species, P. acris, commonly known as the Bayberry tree.
At its feet grow other natives-rhododendron ( Rhododendron macrophyllum), ocean spray ( Holodiscus discolor), Pacific bayberry ( Myrica californica), snowberry ( Symphoricarpos albus), and Pacific yew ( Taxus brevifolia).
The leaves have a spicy aroma that can be used like bay leaves to season food and for this reason this plant is often referred to as California Bayberry.
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examples include spicebush (Lindera benzoin), ink-berry (Ilex glabra), gray dogwood (Cornus racemosa), northern bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica), red chokecherry (Aronia arbutifolia), and arrowwood (Viburnum dentatum).
 See also: Green, Evergreen, Fruits, May, Myrtle
  
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