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Cleyera
Cleyera is a plant genus consisting of 21 species of tender, evergreen shrubs to small trees, mostly native to Mexico and Central America, and one from Eastern Asia. In the APG III system it is placed in the family Pentaphylacaceae.
The botanical name is derived from Andrew Cleyer, a Dutch physician of the seventeenth century. The plants are grown for specimen accent hedges or mixed border landscapes. Though they are slow-growing, they can eventually reach 6–10 ft (1.8-3m). The plants grow densely upright with low spreading-branch habit, round-shaped form, and can be kept compact by occasionally tip-cutting. Leaves are glossy, oval-shaped, 6–10 cm long with dark-green and bronze-red to burgundy tinted young leaves. Very fragrant small creamy white to pale yellow flowers bloom in early summer with petals free or scarcely coalesced. The pollen can cause mild allergy symptoms. Fruits are spherical, greenish yellow, turning red to black.
24 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Cleyera japonica
speciesCleyera japonica
Cleyera theoides
speciesCleyera theoides
Cleyera longicarpa
speciesCleyera longicarpa
Cleyera integrifolia
speciesCleyera integrifolia
Cleyera parvifolia
speciesCleyera parvifolia
Cleyera pachyphylla
speciesCleyera pachyphylla
Cleyera ternstroemioides
speciesCleyera ternstroemioides
Cleyera obscurinervia
speciesCleyera obscurinervia
Cleyera bolleana
speciesCleyera bolleana
Cleyera velutina
speciesCleyera velutina
Cleyera cernua
speciesCleyera cernua
Cleyera serrulata
speciesCleyera serrulata
Cleyera lipingensis
speciesCleyera lipingensis
Cleyera yangchunensis
speciesCleyera yangchunensis
Cleyera albopunctata
speciesCleyera albopunctata
Cleyera cuspidata
speciesCleyera cuspidata
Cleyera incornuta
speciesCleyera incornuta
Cleyera neibensis
speciesCleyera neibensis
Cleyera bokorensis
speciesCleyera bokorensis
Cleyera vaccinioides
speciesCleyera vaccinioides
Cleyera ekmanii
speciesCleyera ekmanii
Cleyera nimanimae
speciesCleyera nimanimae
Cleyera obovata
speciesCleyera obovata
Cleyera orbicularis
speciesCleyera orbicularis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 157137.