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Morella faya (firetree; Firebush; Fire tree; Candleberry myrtle; Fayatree; Feuerbaum)

Synonyms: Faya fragifera; Fayana azorica; Myrica faya; Myrica faya f. nanophylla; Myrica frondosa

Wikipedia Abstract

Myrica faya (firetree, faya or haya; syn. Morella faya (Ait.) Wilbur) is a species of Myrica, native to Macaronesia (the Azores, Madeira, and the Canary Islands), and possibly also southern Portugal. It is an evergreen shrub or small tree 3–8 m tall, rarely up to 15 m tall. The leaves are usually a dark, glossy green, 4–11 cm long and 1–3 cm broad, with an entire margin and a bluntly pointed apex. It easily grows in any type of soil.
View Wikipedia Record: Morella faya

Invasive Species

View ISSG Record: Morella faya

Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Specific Gravity [3]  0.66
Structure [1]  Tree

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Ilhéu de Baixo - Ilha Graciosa 74 Portugal      
Ilhéu do topo e Costa Adjacente - Ilha de S. Jorge 855 Portugal      

Predators

Columba bollii (Bolle's Pigeon)[4]
Columba trocaz (Trocaz Pigeon)[5]
Phyllonorycter myricae[6]
Strepsicrates smithiana (Smith's Strepsicrates Moth)[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366. Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository.
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 5DIET OF THE ENDEMIC MADEIRA LAUREL PIGEON AND FRUIT RESOURCE AVAILABILITY: A STUDY USING MICROHISTOLOGICAL ANALYSES, PAULO OLIVEIRA, PATRICIA MARRERO AND MANUEL NOGALES, The Condor 104:811–822 (2002)
♦ 6HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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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