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Syzygium smithii is widely grown in cultivation as a specimen tree. [17] Noted American landscape architect Thomas Church used the species in gardens that he created in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s. These were often clipped to shape. [18] The species has also been used as a subject for bonsai. [19]
Syzygium (/ s ɪ ˈ z ɪ dʒ iː ə m /) [3] is a genus of flowering plants that belongs to the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. The genus comprises about 1200 species, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and has a native range that extends from Africa and Madagascar through southern Asia east through the Pacific . [ 7 ]
Syzygium is a large, broadly distributed genus of flowering trees, shrubs, and subshrubs in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. The following is an alphabetical list of all 1197 species in the genus that are accepted by Plants of the World Online as of July 2022 [update] [ 1 ]
Acmena ingens, now a synonym of Syzygium ingens (F.Muell. ex C.Moore) Craven & Biffin [6] Acmena macrocarpa, now a synonym of Syzygium graveolens (F.M.Bailey) Craven & Biffin [4] Acmena resa, now a synonym of Syzygium resa (B.Hyland) Craven & Biffin [7] Acmena smithii, now a synonym of Syzygium smithii Nied. [8]
[1] [5] Smith did not nominate a type species but James Armstrong nominated Zieria smithii as the lectotype. [6] The name Zieria honours "John Zier, a Polish botanist, who assisted F.C. Ehrhart in his collection of plants of the Electorate of Hanover, 1780-83, and afterwards worked in London, where he died in 1793." [7] [8]
As of September 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 5430 Vulnerable (VU) plant species. [1] 25% of all evaluated plant species are listed as Vulnerable. The IUCN also lists 244 subspecies and 235 varieties as Vulnerable. No subpopulations of plants have been evaluated by the IUCN.
Syzygium sinubanense (Elmer) Diels Syzygium myrtifolium , the red lip or kelat oil , is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae . [ 2 ] It is native to Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia , Sumatra , Java , Borneo , and the Philippines. [ 1 ]
Plants grown as industrial crops are the source of a wide range of products used in manufacturing, sometimes so intensively as to risk harm to the environment. [5] Nonfood products include essential oils, natural dyes, pigments, waxes, resins, tannins, alkaloids, amber and cork.