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Atalantia buxifolia (Box Orange)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Severinia buxifolia is a species of plant related to Citrus, Fortunella, and Citropsis. Its common names include Chinese box-orange, box orange or boxthorn. It is native to southern China. It produces small black berries that resemble black currants. The fruits are eaten by birds that disperse its seeds. It is an evergreen in the wild.
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Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [1]  Tree

Predators

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
2Norrbom, A.L. 2004. Fruit fly (Tephritidae) host plant database. Version Nov, 2004.
3Cynopterus sphinx, Jay F. Storz and Thomas H. Kunz, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 613, pp. 1-8 (1999)
4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0