Quintinia
Quintinia is the genus of around 25 evergreen trees or shrubs native to the Philippines, New Guinea, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Australia. Plants have alternate leaves. White or lilac flowers form at the end of stalks or on leaf axils. The fruiting body is a capsule, usually containing a large number of tiny seeds. The genus is named after the gardener Jean-Baptiste de la Quintinie.
11 branches of this genus, most-observed first
tawheowheo
speciesQuintinia serrata
Smooth Possumwood
speciesQuintinia verdonii
Rough Possumwood
speciesQuintinia sieberi
Quintinia acutifolia
speciesQuintinia acutifolia
Quintinia quatrefagesii
speciesQuintinia quatrefagesii
Quintinia major
speciesQuintinia major
Quintinia minor
speciesQuintinia minor
Quintinia fawkneri
speciesQuintinia fawkneri
Quintinia oreophila
speciesQuintinia oreophila
Quintinia apoensis
speciesQuintinia apoensis
Quintinia elliptica
speciesQuintinia elliptica
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 366630.