Kingdom Plantae Family Oleaceae Scientific name Phillyrea Rank Genus | Order Lamiales Tribe Oleeae Higher classification Oleeae | |
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Lower classifications Phillyrea latifolia, False olive | ||
Walter pall bonsai demo phillyrea latifolia part 1 3
Phillyrea is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae, native to the Mediterranean region, and naturalized in the Canary Islands and Madeira.
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They are evergreen shrubs or small trees growing to 3–9 m tall, related to Ligustrum, Olea and Osmanthus. The leaves are in opposite pairs, small, leathery, ovate to lanceolate, 2–6 cm long and 0.5–2 cm broad. The flowers are small, greenish-white, produced in short clusters. The fruit is a drupe containing a single seed.
Phillyrea yamadori bonsai tree
Species
A third species P. decora from the Caucasus is now usually treated in the genus Osmanthus as Osmanthus decorus. Over 200 other names have been proposed over the years, now considered synonyms of existing taxa.
References
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