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Buckthorn (Rhamnaceae)
Buckthorn is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, buckthorn showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
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Buckthorn
Buckthorn is a group of evergreen shrub species with small, inconspicuous flowers. These plants grow throughout North America in moist, open areas with nutrient-rich soil. They all produce fruit that is red or black and in the shape of a drupe. There is some taxonomic contention in the scientific community surrounding this genus.
Scutia
Scutia is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, scutia showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Colletia
Colletia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rhamnaceae, with 15 to 17 species of spiny shrubs. All species of this genus are native to southern South America.
Discaria
Discaria is a genus of about 12 species of flowering plants in the family Rhamnaceae, native to temperate regions of the Southern Hemisphere, in Australia, New Zealand and South America. They are deciduous thorny shrubs or small trees growing to 2 to 5 m tall.
Phylica
It contains about 150 species, the majority of which are restricted to South Africa, where they form part of the fynbos. A few species occur in other parts of southern Africa, and on islands including Madagascar, the Mascarene Islands, Île Amsterdam, Saint Helena, Tristan da Cunha, and Gough Island.
Trichocephalus
Trichocephalus is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, trichocephalus showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Atadinus
Atadinus is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, atadinus showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Berchemiella
Berchemiella includes two species, one found in China and another in Japan.
All Species of Buckthorn
Buckthorn
Buckthorn
Buckthorn is a group of evergreen shrub species with small, inconspicuous flowers. These plants grow throughout North America in moist, open areas with nutrient-rich soil. They all produce fruit that is red or black and in the shape of a drupe. There is some taxonomic contention in the scientific community surrounding this genus.
Scutia
Scutia
Scutia is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, scutia showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Colletia
Colletia
Colletia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rhamnaceae, with 15 to 17 species of spiny shrubs. All species of this genus are native to southern South America.
Discaria
Discaria
Discaria is a genus of about 12 species of flowering plants in the family Rhamnaceae, native to temperate regions of the Southern Hemisphere, in Australia, New Zealand and South America. They are deciduous thorny shrubs or small trees growing to 2 to 5 m tall.
Phylica
Phylica
It contains about 150 species, the majority of which are restricted to South Africa, where they form part of the fynbos. A few species occur in other parts of southern Africa, and on islands including Madagascar, the Mascarene Islands, Île Amsterdam, Saint Helena, Tristan da Cunha, and Gough Island.
Trichocephalus
Trichocephalus
Trichocephalus is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, trichocephalus showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Atadinus
Atadinus
Atadinus is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, atadinus showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Berchemiella
Berchemiella
Berchemiella includes two species, one found in China and another in Japan.
Pomaderris
Pomaderris
Pomaderris is a genus of shrub to small tree in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae. A distinctive feature of the leaves, branches, and twigs of this genus, is that they are hairy. Sixty-five of the species are native to Australia and the other five are from New Zealand.
Krugiodendron
Krugiodendron
Krugiodendron are evergreen trees that grow in the Carribbean and Central America. These species are resistant to some hurricane-force winds, making them a popular choice with landscapers. Krugiodendron produce tiny whitish-green blooms in the spring, but the trees are cultivated for their foliage. They produce attractive glossy green leaves.
Alphitonia
Alphitonia
Alphitonia is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, alphitonia showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Gouania
Gouania
The 50 to 70 species it contains are native to tropical and subtropical regions of the world. They are shrubs or lianas.
Bluewoods
Bluewoods
Bluewoods are thorny bushes with a similar growth habit, often forming dense stands in open areas. These bushes grow from seeds, and some species of bluewoods are easily recognized by their large, football-shaped fruits. Other species produce fruits covered in small thorns.
Jujube
Jujube
Jujube are small trees with inconspicuous flowers. Some of the trees in this genus produce fruit similar to dates, which has made them extremely popular with both humans and birds and are now widely cultivated across the world. The Ziziphus genus got its name from the Persian words zizfum or zizafun, which were used to designate jujube plants.
Paliurus
Paliurus
Paliurus are shrubs or small trees growing to 3 to 15 m tall. The shoots are zig-zagged, with a leaf and two stipular spines on the outside of each kink. The leaves are deciduous or evergreen, oval, 2 to 10 cm long and 1 to 7 cm broad, glossy green, with three conspicuous veins at the base, and an entire or bluntly toothed margin. The fruit is a dry woody nutlet centred in a circular wing 1 to 3.5 cm diameter. The eight species are native to warm, dry regions of Eurasia and North Africa from Morocco and Spain east to Japan and China.
Mock buckthorn
Mock buckthorn
Mock buckthorn produce small flowers, but it’s the multicolored trunk that makes these shrubs easy to identify. They are primarily found in the American southwest growing in canyons and desert grasslands. Mock buckthorn are also an occasional landscaping plant used to create hedges and borders.
Buckthorns
Buckthorns
This plant is similar to common buckthorn, but the stems are more stout and the leaves are longer. In its native range it may be up to 10 meters tall. It may also reach up to 9 meters in cultivation. The oppositely arranged leaves are up to 13 cm long by 6 wide in its native range, and usually smaller where it is introduced.
Redroots
Redroots
Redroots are commonly cultivated as ornamental plants in gardens. The seeds generally require a forest fire to trigger their germination, and the flowers are extremely fragrant. The leaves of these plants are an important food source for deer, porcupine, and quail, and the dried leaves have also been used in teas.
Adolphia
Adolphia
Adolphia contains only two species. These are rigid, thorny, flowering bushes found in North America.
Nakedwoods
Nakedwoods
Nakedwoods is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions. It has the snake-like stems or stamens. The species are shrubs and small trees growing 1.006 to 10 m tall, with simple ovate leaves. The flowers are small, greenish-white or yellowish; the fruit is a capsule containing three seeds.
Supplejacks
Supplejacks
Supplejacks are a genus of some thirty or so climbing plants and trees that are native to Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Many species are grown in gardens. Climbing species are valued for their evergreen foliage. Species that grow as trees have broad crowns that make them a good choice of shade tree and they are also grown as windbreaks. This genus is named for the noted French botanist M. Berchem.
Sarcomphalus
Sarcomphalus
Sarcomphalus are a small group of plants native to the tropical and subtropical Americas. These plants are well adapted to hot and arid environments, with long spines, small leaves, and a compact growth habit. Some of these plants are in decline and the species Sarcomphalus havanensis is listed as 'endangered' on the IUCN Red List of endangered species.
Spyridium
Spyridium
Spyridium is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, spyridium showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Cryptandra
Cryptandra
Cryptandra is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, cryptandra showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Pseudoziziphus
Pseudoziziphus
Pseudoziziphus is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, pseudoziziphus showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Ventilago
Ventilago
Ventilago is a genus of plants in the family Rhamnaceae. It includes about 35 species found in the tropics of Australasia, with one species each in Africa and Madagascar.
Rhamnella
Rhamnella
Rhamnella is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, rhamnella showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Hovenia
Hovenia
Hovenia is a small genus of deciduous trees or shrubs in the family Rhamnaceae. They occur naturally from India to Japan.
Alpine laurels
Alpine laurels
Alpine laurels is a genus of flowering plants in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae.
Alder buckthorns
Alder buckthorns
The alder buckthorns are a group of shrubs that are sometimes used for wildlife habitat, wildlife food sources (leaves and berries), erosion control, woodworking, and as ornamental plants. The species F. alnus is best known for its use in manufacturing gun powder due to its very even burn rate.
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Dracaena
Dracaena are popular house plants that are easy to grow. They can tolerate low-light conditions and require little watering. Their leaves range from variegated to dark green. Their characteristic traits include woody stems that grow slowly but offer a striking appearance for small spaces such as apartments or offices.
Fig trees
Fig trees have been cultivated in many regions for their fruits, particularly the common fig, F. carica. Most of the species have edible fruits, although the common fig is the only one of commercial value. Fig trees are also important food sources for wildlife in the tropics, including monkeys, bats, and insects.
Brambles
Brambles are members of the rose family, and there are hundreds of different types to be found throughout the European countryside. They have been culturally significant for centuries; Christian folklore stories hold that when the devil was thrown from heaven, he landed on a bramble bush. Their vigorous growth habit can tangle into native plants and take over.
Maples
The popular tree family known as maples change the color of their leaves in the fall. Many cultural traditions encourage people to watch the colors change, such as momijigari in Japan. Maples popular options for bonsai art. Alternately, their sap is used to create maple syrup.
Prunus
Prunus is a genus of flowering fruit trees that includes almonds, cherries, plums, peaches, nectarines, and apricots. These are often known as "stone fruits" because their pits are large seeds or "stones." When prunus trees are damaged, they exhibit "gummosis," a condition in which the tree's gum (similar to sap) is secreted to the bark to help heal external wounds.
Nightshades
Nightshades is a large and diverse genus of plants, with more than 1500 different types worldwide. This genus incorporates both important staple food crops like tomato, potato, and eggplant, but also dangerous poisonous plants from the nightshade family. The name was coined by Pliny the Elder almost two thousand years ago.
Roses
Most species of roses are shrubs or climbing plants that have showy flowers and sharp thorns. They are commonly cultivated for cut flowers or as ornamental plants in gardens due to their attractive appearance, pleasant fragrance, and cultural significance in many countries. The rose hips (fruits) can also be used in jams and teas.
Oaks
Oaks are among the world's longest-lived trees, sometimes growing for over 1,000 years! The oldest known oak tree is in the southern United States and is over 1,500 years old. Oaks produce an exceedingly popular type of wood which is used to make different products, from furniture and flooring to wine barrels and even cosmetic creams.
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Buckthorn
Rhamnaceae
Buckthorn is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, buckthorn showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Exploring the Buckthorn Plants
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8 most common species：
Buckthorn
Buckthorn is a group of evergreen shrub species with small, inconspicuous flowers. These plants grow throughout North America in moist, open areas with nutrient-rich soil. They all produce fruit that is red or black and in the shape of a drupe. There is some taxonomic contention in the scientific community surrounding this genus.
Scutia
Scutia is a diverse group of plants encompassing both ornamental and edible species. This family includes beloved favorites like roses, apples, and strawberries. With their captivating blooms and delicious fruits, Rosales plants have significant garden usage and economic value. They also attract beneficial insects and birds, contributing to the ecological balance. From delicate wildflowers to towering fruit trees, scutia showcases a wide range of sizes and shapes, making them an enchanting addition to any landscape.
Colletia
Colletia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rhamnaceae, with 15 to 17 species of spiny shrubs. All species of this genus are native to southern South America.
Discaria
Discaria is a genus of about 12 species of flowering plants in the family Rhamnaceae, native to temperate regions of the Southern Hemisphere, in Australia, New Zealand and South America. They are deciduous thorny shrubs or small trees growing to 2 to 5 m tall.
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All Species of Buckthorn
Buckthorn
Scutia
Colletia
Discaria
Phylica
Trichocephalus
Atadinus
Berchemiella
Pomaderris
Krugiodendron
Alphitonia
Gouania
Bluewoods
Jujube
Paliurus
Mock buckthorn
Buckthorns
Redroots
Adolphia
Nakedwoods
Supplejacks
Sarcomphalus
Spyridium
Cryptandra
Pseudoziziphus
Ventilago
Rhamnella
Hovenia
Alpine laurels
Alder buckthorns
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Dracaena
Dracaena are popular house plants that are easy to grow. They can tolerate low-light conditions and require little watering. Their leaves range from variegated to dark green. Their characteristic traits include woody stems that grow slowly but offer a striking appearance for small spaces such as apartments or offices.
Fig trees
Fig trees have been cultivated in many regions for their fruits, particularly the common fig, F. carica. Most of the species have edible fruits, although the common fig is the only one of commercial value. Fig trees are also important food sources for wildlife in the tropics, including monkeys, bats, and insects.
Brambles
Brambles are members of the rose family, and there are hundreds of different types to be found throughout the European countryside. They have been culturally significant for centuries; Christian folklore stories hold that when the devil was thrown from heaven, he landed on a bramble bush. Their vigorous growth habit can tangle into native plants and take over.
Maples
The popular tree family known as maples change the color of their leaves in the fall. Many cultural traditions encourage people to watch the colors change, such as momijigari in Japan. Maples popular options for bonsai art. Alternately, their sap is used to create maple syrup.
Prunus
Prunus is a genus of flowering fruit trees that includes almonds, cherries, plums, peaches, nectarines, and apricots. These are often known as "stone fruits" because their pits are large seeds or "stones." When prunus trees are damaged, they exhibit "gummosis," a condition in which the tree's gum (similar to sap) is secreted to the bark to help heal external wounds.
Nightshades
Nightshades is a large and diverse genus of plants, with more than 1500 different types worldwide. This genus incorporates both important staple food crops like tomato, potato, and eggplant, but also dangerous poisonous plants from the nightshade family. The name was coined by Pliny the Elder almost two thousand years ago.
Roses
Most species of roses are shrubs or climbing plants that have showy flowers and sharp thorns. They are commonly cultivated for cut flowers or as ornamental plants in gardens due to their attractive appearance, pleasant fragrance, and cultural significance in many countries. The rose hips (fruits) can also be used in jams and teas.
Oaks
Oaks are among the world's longest-lived trees, sometimes growing for over 1,000 years! The oldest known oak tree is in the southern United States and is over 1,500 years old. Oaks produce an exceedingly popular type of wood which is used to make different products, from furniture and flooring to wine barrels and even cosmetic creams.
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