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Cyrilla
Cyrilla (titi) is a genus of ten accepted shrub and tree species in Cyrillaceae, Ericales, native from the southeastern U.S. to tropical America; the widespread swamp titi, Cyrilla racemiflora, forms wetland thickets, resprouts after fire, and yields valued honey.
Diospyros melanoxylon
Diospyros melanoxylon (tendu, kendu, Coromandel ebony), an Ebenaceae tree native to India and Sri Lanka, whose leaves wrap bidis, supporting over 12 million livelihoods, and which yields triterpenes with reported antidiabetic activity.
Empetrum nigrum
Empetrum nigrum (black crowberry, crowberry) is an evergreen Ericaceae dwarf shrub of boreal and arctic Northern Hemisphere heaths, with black stone fruits, diploid dioecious and tetraploid hermaphroditum groups, and bibenzyl-based allelopathy.
Erica arborea
Erica arborea (tree heath, briar root), Ericaceae shrub or small tree native from the Mediterranean to tropical African mountains and Arabia; source of briar-root pipe wood, IUCN Least Concern.
Erica cinerea
Erica cinerea, bell heather or twisted heath, is a western European Ericaceae subshrub of dry acidic heaths, whorled needle leaves, purple summer flowers, IUCN Least Concern, over 140 garden cultivars.
Primula veris
Primula veris, the cowslip, is a yellow-flowered European perennial primrose with distylous pin and thrum flowers studied by Darwin, and flowers approved as a traditional EU expectorant for colds.
Vaccinium angustifolium
Vaccinium angustifolium, the lowbush or wild blueberry, is a tetraploid Ericaceae subshrub native to eastern North America, harvested from managed wild stands in Maine and Atlantic Canada on a two-year prune-crop cycle, with higher anthocyanins than highbush blueberry.