Taxon: Arbutus unedo L.

• the 10 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• arbutus   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ) – English
  
• Irish strawberry-tree   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• strawberry-tree   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ) – English
  
• arbousier commun   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• fraisier en arbre   (Source: Lemoine 1998) – French
  
• Erdbeerbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• corbezzolo   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• sorbo peloso   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• ervedeiro   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• medronheiro   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• borrachín   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• madroño   (Source: F Int Apico ) – Spanish
  
• smultronträd   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  
• katlab   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Turkish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Bee plants: honey production   (fide F Int Apico)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Eur Gard F)
  
• Human food: beverage base   (fide Lemoine 1998)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide Lemoine 1998)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  

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View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Ireland
  East Europe: Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Georgia
• EUROPE
  Europe [s.]
• also cultivated elsewhere

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Duke, J. A. 1985. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. [cultivated].
• Lemoine, E. 1998. Guide des fruits du monde. 30.
• Meyer, F. G. et al. 1994. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States.
• Ortega-Sada, J. L. 1987. Flora de interes apicola y polinizacion de cultivos.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Arbutus unedo.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Arbutus unedo.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Arbutus unedo.

Check other web resources for Arbutus unedo L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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