Taxon: Ardisia crenata Sims

Common names:

• coral bush   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – English
  
• coralberry   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• coralberry tree   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – English
  
• hen's-eyes   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – English
  
• spiceberry   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• koraalbessieboom   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• zhu sha gen   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• baie corail   (Source: UPOV [as A. crispa]) – French
  
• Gewürzbeere   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• Spitzenblume   (Source: UPOV [as A. crispa]) – German
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Xizang [s.w.], Yunnan, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Honshu [s.], Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku; Korea, South; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [s.w.]
  Indo-China: Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Malaysia; Philippines

• naturalized in s. Africa, s.e. United States, Mascarenes, Seychelles, & Hawaii

References:

• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. (Weeds SAfr 2001)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan. (F Japan)
• Office of the Union. 2009. UPOV: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants. List of the taxa protected by the members of the Union. (UPOV)
• Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds. 1970–. Flora of Thailand. (F Thailand)
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. (F Okin)
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)

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Synonyms:

• (=) Ardisia crenulata Lodd. et al., nom. nud.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other databases for Ardisia crenata Sims:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images 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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