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Frangula

Called “Buckthorn” in GBIF

Frangula is a genus of about 56 species of flowering shrubs or small trees, commonly known as buckthorn, in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae. The common name buckthorn is also used to describe species of the closely related genus Rhamnus in the same family, and also the superficially similar but only distantly related sea-buckthorn, Hippophae rhamnoides in the Elaeagnaceae.

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61
accepted species in GBIF
Source: GBIF
2
plants on Plant News
2
research articles
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What science is finding about Frangula

Every article on Plant News that mentions a member of this genus, newest first.

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