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59 relations: Apricot, Assam, Black tea, Bonin Islands, Cartrema, Cartrema americana, Caucasus, Cultivar, Drupe, Evergreen, Family (biology), Flower, Flowering plant, Fruit, Fujian, Genus, Green tea, Guangxi, Guilin, Guizhou, Hainan, Himalayas, Huangjiu, Hubei, Hunan, Hybrid (biology), Jiangxi, João de Loureiro, Kyushu, Leaf, Mexico, Mid-Autumn Festival, New Caledonia, Oleaceae, Osmanthus armatus, Osmanthus delavayi, Osmanthus fragrans, Osmanthus heterophyllus, Osmanthus suavis, Osmanthus wine, Osmanthus yunnanensis, Panicle, Peach, Peninsular Malaysia, Rice wine, Ryukyu Islands, Seed, Shrub, Sichuan, Sikkim, ... Expand index (9 more) »
- Oleaceae genera
Apricot
An apricot is a fruit, or the tree that bears the fruit, of several species in the genus Prunus.
Assam
Assam is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.
Black tea
Black tea (also literally translated as red tea from various East Asian languages) is a type of tea that is more oxidized than oolong, yellow, white and green teas.
Bonin Islands
The Bonin Islands, also known as the Ogasawara Islands (小笠原諸島), is a Japanese archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands located around SSE of Tokyo and northwest of Guam.
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Cartrema
Cartrema is a genus of a few species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae, native to southeastern Asia, southern China, and North America (Mexico, Central America, southeastern United States), formerly treated as section Leiolea of Osmanthus. Osmanthus and Cartrema are Oleaceae genera.
Cartrema americana
Cartrema americana, commonly called American olive, wild olive, or devilwood, is an evergreen shrub or small tree native to southeastern North America, in the United States from Virginia to Texas, and in Mexico from Nuevo León south to Oaxaca and Veracruz.
See Osmanthus and Cartrema americana
Caucasus
The Caucasus or Caucasia, is a transcontinental region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia.
Cultivar
A cultivar is a kind of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and which retains those traits when propagated.
Drupe
In botany, a drupe (or stone fruit) is an indehiscent type of fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin, and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the pip (UK), pit (US), stone, or pyrena) of hardened endocarp with a seed (kernel) inside.
Evergreen
In botany, an evergreen is a plant which has foliage that remains green and functional throughout the year.
Family (biology)
Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Flower
A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae).
Flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae, commonly called angiosperms.
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Fruit
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering (see Fruit anatomy).
Fujian
Fujian is a province on the southeastern coast of China.
Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
Green tea
Green tea is a type of tea that is made from Camellia sinensis leaves and buds that have not undergone the same withering and oxidation process which is used to make oolong teas and black teas.
Guangxi
Guangxi, officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam (Hà Giang, Cao Bằng, Lạng Sơn, and Quảng Ninh Provinces) and the Gulf of Tonkin.
Guilin
Guilin (Standard Zhuang: Gveilinz), formerly romanized as Kweilin, is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Guizhou
Guizhou is an inland province in Southwestern China.
Hainan
Hainan is an island province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration.
Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya.
Huangjiu
Huangjiu is a type of Chinese rice wine most popular in the Jiangnan area.
Hubei
Hubei is an inland province of China, and is part of the Central China region.
Hunan
Hunan is an inland province of China.
Hybrid (biology)
In biology, a hybrid is the offspring resulting from combining the qualities of two organisms of different varieties, subspecies, species or genera through sexual reproduction.
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Jiangxi
Jiangxi is an inland province in the east of the People's Republic of China.
João de Loureiro
João de Loureiro (1717, Lisbon – 18 October 1791) was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary and botanist.
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Kyushu
is the third-largest island of Japan's four main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands (i.e. excluding Okinawa).
Leaf
A leaf (leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis.
Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.
Mid-Autumn Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival, is a harvest festival celebrated in Chinese culture.
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New Caledonia
New Caledonia (Nouvelle-Calédonie) is a ''sui generis'' collectivity of overseas France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about east of Australia, and from Metropolitan France.
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Oleaceae
Oleaceae, also known as the olive family or sometimes the lilac family, is a taxonomic family of flowering shrubs, trees, and a few lianas in the order Lamiales.
Osmanthus armatus
Osmanthus armatus, also known by the common name devil woodMissouri Botanic Garden.
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Osmanthus delavayi
Osmanthus delavayi is a species of flowering plant in the olive family Oleaceae.
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Osmanthus fragrans
Osmanthus fragrans, variously known as sweet osmanthus, sweet olive, tea olive, and fragrant olive, is a flowering plant species native to Asia from the Himalayas through the provinces of Guizhou, Sichuan and Yunnan in China, Taiwan, southern Japan and Southeast Asia as far south as Cambodia and Thailand.
See Osmanthus and Osmanthus fragrans
Osmanthus heterophyllus
Osmanthus heterophyllus (Chinese:t 柊樹, s 柊树, p zhōngshù; 柊, Hiiragi), variously known as holly osmanthus, holly olive, and false holly, is a species of flowering plant in the olive family Oleaceae, native to eastern Asia in central and southern Japan (Honshū, Kyūshū, Shikoku, and the Ryukyu Islands) and Taiwan.
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Osmanthus suavis
Osmanthus suavis, the sweet olive or sweet osmanthus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Oleaceae, native to the slopes of the Eastern Himalayas.
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Osmanthus wine
Osmanthus wine, also known as cassia wine or Kuei Hua Chen Chiew, is a Chinese alcoholic beverage produced from weak baijiu and flavored with sweet osmanthus (Osmanthus fragrans) flowers.
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Osmanthus yunnanensis
Osmanthus yunnanensis is a species of flowering plant in the olive family Oleaceae, native to Yunnan and Sichuan in the far south west of China.
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Panicle
A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence.
Peach
The peach (Prunus persica) is a deciduous tree first domesticated and cultivated in Zhejiang province of Eastern China.
Peninsular Malaysia
Peninsular Malaysia, historically known as Malaya, also known as West Malaysia or the "Malaysian Peninsula", is the western part of Malaysia that comprises the southern part of the Malay Peninsula on Mainland Southeast Asia and the nearby islands.
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Rice wine
Rice wine is a generic term for an alcoholic beverage fermented from rice, traditionally consumed in East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia.
Ryukyu Islands
The, also known as the or the, are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yonaguni the westernmost.
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Seed
In botany, a seed is a plant embryo and food reserve enclosed in a protective outer covering called a seed coat (testa).
Shrub
A shrub or bush is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant.
Sichuan
Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north and the Yungui Plateau to the south.
Sikkim
Sikkim is a state in northeastern India.
Sinosphere
The Sinosphere, also known as the Chinese cultural sphere, East Asian cultural sphere, or the Sinic world, encompasses multiple countries in East Asia and Southeast Asia that were historically heavily influenced by Chinese culture.
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.
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Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
Sumatra
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia.
Tree
In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves.
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
Warring States period
The Warring States period was an era in ancient Chinese history characterized by warfare, bureaucratic and military reform, and political consolidation.
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Yunnan
Yunnan is an inland province in Southwestern China.
Zhejiang
Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China.
See also
Oleaceae genera
- Cartrema
- Chengiodendron
- Chionanthus
- Chrysojasminum
- Comoranthus
- Forestiera
- Forsythia
- Fraxinus
- Haenianthus
- Jasmine
- Menodora
- Myxopyrum
- Nestegis
- Noronhia
- Notelaea
- Nyctanthes
- Olea
- Osmanthus
- Phillyrea
- Picconia
- Priogymnanthus
- Schrebera
- Syringa
- Tetrapilus
References
Also known as Siphonosmanthus.