Frangula alnus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Rosales
- Family
- Rhamnaceae
- Genus
- Frangula
- Species
- Frangula alnus
- Scientific Name
- Frangula alnus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Frangula alnus
Frangula alnus, commonly known as alder buckthorn, glossy buckthorn, or breaking buckthorn, is a tall deciduous shrub in the family Rhamnaceae. Unlike other "buckthorns", alder buckthorn does not have thorns. It is native to Europe, northernmost Africa, and western Asia, from Ireland and Great Britain north to the 68th parallel in Scandinavia, east to central Siberia and Xinjiang in western China, and south to northern Morocco, Turkey, and the Alborz in Iran and the Caucasus Mountains; in the northwest of its range (Ireland, Scotland), it is rare and scattered. It is also introduced and naturalised in eastern North America.
...Frangula alnus in languages:
- Arabic
- عوسج أسود
- Arabic
- نبق لامع
- Belarusian
- Крушына ломкая
- Bokmål
- trollhegg
- Bokmål
- brakved
- Catalan
- fràngula
- Chinese
- 歐鼠李
- Croatian
- Trušljika
- Croatian
- Krkavina
- Czech
- krušina olšová
- Danish
- Tørst
- Dutch
- sporkehout
- Dutch
- spork
- Dutch
- vuilboom
- English
- alder buckthorn
- English
- glossy buckthorn
- English
- Glossy False-Buckthorn
- English
- breaking buckthorn
- Estonian
- harilik paakspuu
- Finnish
- Korpipaatsama
- French
- Bourdaine
- French
- Bourdaine commune
- Galician
- Sanguiño
- German
- Faulbaum
- German
- Echter Faulbaum
- Hungarian
- közönséges kutyabenge
- Italian
- frangola
- Latvian
- Parastais krūklis
- Lithuanian
- Paprastasis šaltekšnis
- Polish
- Kruszyna pospolita
- Portuguese
- sanguinho
- Portuguese
- amieiro-negro
- Romanian
- Crușin
- Russian
- Крушина ломкая
- Slovene
- navadna krhlika
- Swedish
- brakved
- Turkish
- barut ağacı kabuğu
- Turkish
- Barutağacı
- Ukrainian
- Крушина ламка
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Frangula acuminata
- Frangula alnus
- Frangula azorica
- Frangula betulifolia
- Frangula breedlovei
- Frangula californica
- Frangula capreifolia
- Frangula caroliniana
- Frangula chimalapensis
- Frangula crenata
- Frangula discolor
- Frangula goudotiana
- Frangula grandiflora
- Frangula granulosa
- Frangula hintonii
- Frangula inconspicua
- Frangula longipes
- Frangula longistyla
- Frangula macrocarpa
- Frangula mcvaughii
- Frangula microphylla
- Frangula mucronata
- Frangula obovata
- Frangula oreodendron
- Frangula palmeri
- Frangula pendula
- Frangula pinetorum
- Frangula pringlei
- Frangula purshiana
- Frangula rubra
- Frangula rupestris
- Frangula scopulorum
- Frangula sphaerosperma
- Frangula surotatensis
- Frangula wendtii
- Frangula × blumeri
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