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Taxon:  Arbutus unedo L.



Summary
Genus:
Arbutus
Family:
Ericaceae
Subfamily:
Arbutoideae
Nomen number:
3849
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:395. 1753
Verified:
05/15/1995 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
4 (4  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images
Reference(s)
  1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009 Note:
    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  2. Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
  3. Duke, J. A. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 1985
  4. Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). http://www.emplantbase.org/home.html
  5. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Arbutus+unedo&quantity=1
  6. Greuter, W. et al., eds. Med-Checklist. 1984-
  7. Hanelt, P., ed. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 2001 http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:2422827336895397#
  8. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
  9. Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource). http://www.anbg.gov.au/common.names/
  10. Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. Flora SSSR. 1934-1964 Note: cultivated
  11. Lemoine, E. 1998. Guide des fruits du monde. 30.
  12. Meyer, F. G. et al. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States. 1994
  13. Ortega-Sada, J. L. Flora de interes apicola y polinizacion de cultivos. 1987
  14. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  15. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  16. Stace, C. New flora of the British Isles. 1995
  17. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. 1964-1980
  18. Walters, S. M. et al., eds. European garden flora. 1986-
Common names
English
arbutus –
Irish strawberry-tree –
strawberry-tree –
French
arbousier commun –
fraisier en arbre –
German
Erdbeerbaum –
Italian
corbezzolo –
sorbo peloso –
Portuguese
ervedeiro –
medronheiro –
Spanish
borrachín –
madroño –
Swedish
smultronträd –
Turkish
katlab –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaAlgeria  
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaMorocco  
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaTunisia  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaCyprus  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaLebanon  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaSyria  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaTurkey  
1NativeEuropeEast EuropeUkraine  
1NativeEuropeNorthern EuropeIreland  
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeAlbania  
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeBulgaria  
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeCroatia  
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeGreece incl. Crete
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeItaly incl. Sardinia, Sicily
1NativeEuropeSouthwestern EuropeFrance incl. Corsica
1NativeEuropeSouthwestern EuropePortugal  
1NativeEuropeSouthwestern EuropeSpain incl. Baleares
2Cultivated    also cult. elsewhere
2CultivatedAsia-TemperateCaucasusGeorgia  
2CultivatedEurope Europe s.
Native
Africa
  • NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia
Asia-Temperate
  • WESTERN ASIA: Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
Europe
  • EAST EUROPE: Ukraine
  • NORTHERN EUROPE: Ireland
  • SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece (incl. Crete), Croatia, Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily)
  • SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: Spain (incl. Baleares), France (incl. Corsica), Portugal
Cultivated

  • REGION:
Asia-Temperate
  • CAUCASUS: Georgia
Europe
  • REGION: Europe (s.)
Economic Uses
Bee plants
Environmental
ornamental (fide Dict Gard; Eur Gard F) –
Human food
beverage base (fide Lemoine 1998) –
Medicines
folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2) –


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