Ehretia

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Ehretia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/ehretia/). Accessed 2024-04-18.

Family

Ehretiaceae

Species in genus

Glossary

family: A group of genera more closely related to each other than to genera in other families. Names of families are identified by the suffix ‘-aceae’ (e.g. Myrtaceae) with a few traditional exceptions (e.g. Leguminosae).

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Ehretia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/ehretia/). Accessed 2024-04-18.

Ehretia dicksonii flowering at the Westonbirt National Arboretum, Gloucestershire, UK, on 5th July 2014. Image Owen Johnson.

A genus of about fifty species, mostly tropical or subtropical, formerly placed in the family Boraginaceae. The generic name commemorates G. D. Ehret, a German botanical artist who died in England in 1770.

Foliage and flowers of Ehretia dicksonii (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; 29th June 2022). Image Richard Moore.

Ehretia acuminata (syn. E. thyrsiflora) 7 m tall in central London; September 2021. Image Owen Johnson.

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