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Styrax officinalis (drug snowbell)

Synonyms: Styrax cotinifolius; Styrax officinalis var. officinalis; Styrax officinarum

Wikipedia Abstract

Styrax officinalis is a species of plants belonging to the family Styracaceae.
View Wikipedia Record: Styrax officinalis

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [2]  Deciduous
Scent [2]  The flowers are fragrant;
Structure [2]  Shrub
Usage [2]  The fragrant resin 'storax' is obtained by wounding the stem; It is used medicinally, in perfumes, incense etc; The fruits are used as beads in rosaries etc;
Height [2]  16.4 feet (5 m)
Width [2]  6.56 feet (2 m)
View Plants For A Future Record : Styrax officinalis

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Monti Lucretili 28753 Italy  

Predators

Ceroplastes sinensis (hard wax scale)[3]
Lepidosaphes ulmi (apple oystershell scale)[3]
Planococcus ficus (grapevine mealybug)[3]
Synanthedon pipiziformis[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 4HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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