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Agonis
Agonis (peppermints) is a genus of aromatic Myrtaceae shrubs and trees endemic to south-west Western Australia, with white flowers in globular heads and woody 3-valved capsules; type species Agonis flexuosa, the willow myrtle.
Callistemon
Callistemon (bottlebrush) is an Australian genus of Myrtaceae shrubs with brush-like staminate flower spikes; Kew synonymizes it under Melaleuca, but the Australian Plant Census retains it.
Campomanesia
Campomanesia Ruiz & Pav. is a South American genus of about 43-45 woody Myrtaceae species in tribe Myrteae, recognized by a 4-18-locular ovary and a glandular false seed coat; includes guabiroba (C. xanthocarpa) and cambuci (C. phaea).
Chamaenerion angustifolium
Chamaenerion angustifolium, fireweed or rosebay willowherb (syn. Epilobium angustifolium, Chamerion angustifolium), a perennial Onagraceae herb of the temperate Northern Hemisphere that colonizes burned ground, produces about 80,000 wind-dispersed seeds yearly, and is used in traditional herbal medicine.
Combretaceae
Combretaceae R.Br., the combretum or terminalia family, is a pantropical Myrtales plant family of 10 genera and about 568 species, sister to the rest of the order, with Combretum and Terminalia its largest genera and mangrove members Lumnitzera, Conocarpus, and Laguncularia.
Corymbia
Corymbia, the bloodwood eucalypts, a genus of about 95 Australian and New Guinean Myrtaceae trees split from Eucalyptus in 1995; includes spotted gums and ghost gums; non-monophyletic, with Blakella proposed as a separate genus in 2024.
Corymbia citriodora
Corymbia citriodora, the lemon-scented gum (formerly Eucalyptus citriodora), is an Australian Myrtaceae tree from Queensland to NE New South Wales, grown for citronellal-rich essential oil, heavy-construction timber, and ornamental planting.
Epilobium
Epilobium (willowherbs), genus of Onagraceae published by Linnaeus in 1753; about 190-192 accepted species of erect perennial herbs, cosmopolitan except Antarctica, formerly including fireweeds (Chamaenerion) and Zauschneria.
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus (eucalypts) is a Myrtaceae genus of about 880 evergreen Australian tree and shrub species with operculate buds and woody capsules, including the 99.6 m Eucalyptus regnans, the world's most widely planted hardwood timber genus.
Eucalyptus bridgesiana
Eucalyptus bridgesiana, the apple box (apple gum), is an Australian Myrtaceae tree of the Great Dividing Range tablelands, glaucous juvenile leaves, seven-flowered umbels, IUCN Vulnerable A2c after 40.1% habitat decline, introduced to Hawaii.
Eucalyptus deglupta
Eucalyptus deglupta, the rainbow eucalyptus or Mindanao gum (bagras, kamarere), is a tropical Myrtaceae tree native to the Philippines, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea, known for peeling multicolored bark and grown for pulp and timber.
Eucalyptus diversicolor
Karri (Eucalyptus diversicolor F.Muell., 1863) is Western Australia's tallest eucalypt, reaching about 90 m in high-rainfall south-west forests from Nannup to Denmark; a strong structural timber historically exported from Karridale.
Eucalyptus globulus
Eucalyptus globulus, known as the Tasmanian blue gum, is a tall evergreen tree native to Tasmania and Victoria, widely grown for timber and eucalyptus oil.
Eucalyptus grandis
Eucalyptus grandis, flooded gum or rose gum, is a fast-growing Australian Myrtaceae tree up to 60 m, among the most widely planted eucalypts for pulp, mainly in Brazil and South Africa, hybridizing readily with E. saligna.
Eucalyptus marginata
Eucalyptus marginata, jarrah, is a tall eucalypt endemic to south-west Western Australia, dominant in jarrah forest on lateritic soils, a durable termite-resistant red timber, IUCN Near Threatened, with commercial native logging ended in 2024.
Eucalyptus nitens
Eucalyptus nitens, known as shining gum or ribbon gum, is a fast-growing eucalypt tree native to southeastern Australia and a principal pulpwood plantation species of the southern hemisphere.
Eucalyptus saligna
Eucalyptus saligna, Sydney blue gum or blue gum (柳叶桉), a fast-growing Myrtaceae tree to 50 m native to Queensland and New South Wales, widely planted for timber worldwide; IUCN Least Concern, invasive-risk species in Florida.
Eucalyptus tereticornis
Eucalyptus tereticornis, the forest red gum or blue gum, is a Myrtaceae tree to 50 m native from Victoria to Papua New Guinea (6–38°S), IUCN Least Concern, widely planted for timber, pulp, oil, and honey.
Eucalyptus urophylla
Eucalyptus urophylla, Timor white gum or Timor mountain gum (ampupu), an endangered Myrtaceae tree native to the Lesser Sunda Islands and Timor-Leste, widely planted for pulp and as the E. grandis hybrid parent.
Eugenia uniflora
Eugenia uniflora L., the pitanga or Surinam cherry, is a Myrtaceae shrub or small tree native to E. and S. Brazil to S. South America, grown for ribbed edible fruit, invasive in south Florida, IUCN Least Concern.
Feijoa sellowiana
Feijoa sellowiana, also called pineapple guava or Acca sellowiana, is a South American evergreen shrub grown for its sweet, pineapple-flavored green fruit, developed as a crop mainly in New Zealand.
Fuchsia
Fuchsia, genus of about 108 flowering plant species in Onagraceae, native from Mexico to tropical South America, New Zealand, and Tahiti; named by Plumier after Leonhart Fuchs; known for pendulous two-tone flowers, edible berries, and thousands of garden hybrids.
Guava
Guava (Amrood, Peyara) is a tropical fruit tree of the myrtle family, an evergreen shrub or small tree grown throughout the tropics for its sweet aromatic fruit.
Jabuticaba
Jabuticaba (jaboticaba, Brazilian grape tree, Plinia cauliflora) is a slow-growing Myrtaceae fruit tree from Brazil whose dark purple berries and white flowers grow directly on the trunk (cauliflory); grown in zones 9a-11, fruiting in 8-10 years from seed.
Lagerstroemia
Lagerstroemia (crape myrtle genus), Lythraceae, ~50 accepted species of Asian-Australian trees and shrubs; ornamental L. indica, L. speciosa; timber like teak; crinkled petals, winged seeds.
Lagerstroemia speciosa
Lagerstroemia speciosa (banaba, queen's crape myrtle, pride of India) is a tropical Asian Lythraceae tree with large pink-mauve panicles, native from Yunnan to Malesia, used as timber, ornamental, and antidiabetic herbal medicine.
Lawsonia inermis
Lawsonia inermis, henna (also mehndi, Egyptian privet), the sole Lythraceae species of its genus; a 2–6 m shrub whose leaves yield the dye lawsone, used for millennia as hair and skin colorant and in traditional medicine.
Ludwigia
Ludwigia is a genus of about 87 species of flowering plants in the evening-primrose family, mostly annual or perennial herbs of wet places with usually yellow flowers.
Luma
Luma A.Gray is a genus of two Myrtaceae tree species, L. apiculata (arrayán, Chilean myrtle) and L. chequen, native to Chile and western Argentina, grown ornamentally and for honey, fruit, and hard timber.
Lythraceae
Lythraceae, the loosestrife family (Myrtales), is a family of 28 genera and ca. 625 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees, including pomegranate (Punica), henna (Lawsonia), crepe myrtle (Lagerstroemia), and water chestnut (Trapa).