Wrightia religiosa: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Gentianales
- Family
- Apocynaceae
- Genus
- Wrightia
- Species
- Wrightia religiosa
- Scientific Name
- Wrightia religiosa
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Wrightia religiosa
Wrightia religiosa is a species of tree in the family Apocynaceae. Its distribution includes: China (Guangdong), Indochina and Malaysia including the Philippines; no subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life.
This species is commonly a bonsai plant, used in pagodas of Indo-China and elsewhere. In Viet Nam, it may be called: Mai chiếu thủy, mai chấn thủy, mai trúc thủy, or lòng mức miên; in English, it has sometimes been translated as water jasmine. It produces small, pendulous white flowers that have a fragrance similar to true jasmine.
...Wrightia religiosa in languages:
- Chinese
- 水梅
- English
- Water jasmine
- Russian
- Райтия священная
- Thai
- โมกบ้าน
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Wrightia angustifolia
- Wrightia annamensis
- Wrightia antidysenterica
- Wrightia arborea
- Wrightia calcicola
- Wrightia candollei
- Wrightia coccinea
- Wrightia collettii
- Wrightia demartiniana
- Wrightia dolichocarpa
- Wrightia dubia
- Wrightia hanleyi
- Wrightia indica
- Wrightia karaketii
- Wrightia kwangtungensis
- Wrightia laevis
- Wrightia lanceolata
- Wrightia lecomtei
- Wrightia natalensis
- Wrightia novobritannica
- Wrightia palawanensis
- Wrightia poomae
- Wrightia puberula
- Wrightia pubescens
- Wrightia religiosa
- Wrightia saligna
- Wrightia siamensis
- Wrightia sikkimensis
- Wrightia sirikitiae
- Wrightia tinctoria
- Wrightia tokiae
- Wrightia viridiflora