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This category contains articles related to the native flora of tropical Asia. For the purposes of this category, "tropical Asia" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), which calls it Asia-Tropical, namely as one of the nine "botanical continents". It includes the following regions:
Note: The continent of Asia is not a geographical unit employed in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. The following categories should be used instead where the information is available: Category:Flora of temperate Asia; Category:Flora of tropical Asia
Garden plants originally native to Asia; Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. C. Cherry blossom (3 C, 36 P) Pages in category "Garden ...
For the purposes of this category, "Eastern Asia (WGSRPD)" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. It is different from the geographic region usually called East Asia. It is defined as including the following areas, typically defined by the political boundaries of its constituents:
It includes flora taxa that are native to Western Asia. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included. Higher taxa are included only if endemic. For the purposes of this category, "Western Asia" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. That is, the geographic region known as Western Asia is ...
Medicinal plants of Asia by region (1 C) A. Flora of the Arabian Peninsula (8 C, ... Flora of Eastern Asia (6 C, 147 P) I. Flora of the Indian subcontinent (12 C, 385 P)
It is a small to medium-sized tree growing to 7–25 m tall. The leaves are narrow obovate, 20–40 cm in length and 10–20 cm in width. Fruit produced as mentioned earlier, is otherwise aptly known as the Box Fruit, due to distinct square like diagonals jutting out from the cross section of the fruit, given its semi spherical shape form from stem altering to a subpyramidal shape at its base.
The genus has a subcosmopolitan distribution in Europe, Asia, Africa, North America and Australia. By far the greatest diversity (over 100 species) is in the area stretching from the Canary Islands east through the Mediterranean region to central Asia; for comparison, North America only has three native Limonium species.