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Myrica faya (Faya or Haya; syn. For his son see William Townsend Aiton William Aiton ( 1731 - February 2, 1793) was a Scottish Morella faya (Ait. ) Wilbur) is a species of Myrica, native to Macaronesia (the Azores, Madeira, and the Canary Islands), and possibly also southern Portugal. Myrica is a genus of about 35-50 species of small Trees and Shrubs in the family Myricaceae order Fagales Macaronesia is a modern collective name for several groups of Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean near Europe and North Africa belonging The Azores ( Açores ɐˈsoɾɨʃ or) is a Portuguese Archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about 1500 km (950 mi) from History See also History of Madeira Pre-Portuguese times Pliny mentions certain Purple Islands the position of which with reference to the The Canary Islands ( English pronunciation kəˈnæriː ˈaɪləndz Spanish: Islas Canarias, ˈizlas kaˈnarjas are a Spanish Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa is a country on the Iberian Peninsula.
It is an evergreen shrub or small tree 3-8 m tall, rarely up to 15 m tall. In Botany, an Evergreen plant is a plant having leaves all year round A shrub or Bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of Woody plant, distinguished from a Tree A tree is a perennial Woody plant. It is most often defined as a woody plant that has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground on a single main stem or The leaves are usually a dark, glossy green, 4-11 cm long and 1-3 cm broad, with an entire margin and a bluntly pointed apex. In Botany, a leaf is an above-ground Plant organ specialized for Photosynthesis. It easily grows in any type of soil.
It is subdioecious, with the male and female flowers produced largely on separate plants, but often with a few flowers of the other sex present (Binggeli 1997). Plant sexuality covers the wide variety of Sexual reproduction systems found across the Plant kingdom A flower, also known as a bloom or Blossom, is the reproductive structure found in Flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also The male flowers have four stamens and are normally produced in clumps close to the branch. The stamen ( Plural stamina or stamens, from Latin stamen meaning "thread of the warp " is the male A branch ( American English ˈbræntʃ British English ˈbrɑːntʃ or tree branch (sometimes referred to in Botany as a ramus The female flowers, usually occurring in similar groups grow slightly farther from the branch tips. The fruit is an edible drupe 5-6 mm diameter, it is a reddish purple ripening dark purple to black. The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context and the term is not synonymous in Food preparation and Biology. In Botany, a drupe is a Fruit in which an outer fleshy part ( Exocarp, or skin and Mesocarp, or flesh surrounds a shell (the pit It is used as an astringent remedy for catarrh (Pérez 1999, Rushforth 1999). An astringent (also spelled adstringent) substance is a chemical that tends to shrink or constrict Body tissues usually locally after Topical medicinal Catarrh (kəˈtɑ(r is a thick Exudate of Mucus and white blood cells caused by the swelling of the Mucous membranes in the Head
In Macaronesian islands it occurs most abundantly at altitudes of 600-900 m. The Portuguese population may be native or naturalised following early importation from Madeira or the Azores (Rushforth 1999). In Biology, naturalisation is the process when foreign or cultivated plants or animals have spread into the Wild, where they multiply by natural regeneration It is an invasive species in Hawaii (Vitousek et al. Introduced species|Weed Invasive species is a phrase with several definitions The State of Hawaii ( or həˈwaɪʔiː Hawaiian: Mokuāina o Hawaii) is a state in the United States located on an Archipelago in the 1987), where it displaces native trees such as Metrosideros polymorpha, with profound impacts on nitrogen cycling (Vitousek & Walker 1989). Metrosideros polymorpha ( ‘ōhi‘a lehua or lehua) is an evergreen Tree of the Myrtle family which is The nitrogen cycle is the Biogeochemical cycle that describes the transformations of Nitrogen and nitrogen-containing compounds in nature
References
- Binggeli, P. (1997). Myrica faya. University of Bangor.
- Pérez, M. Á. C. (1999). Native Flora of the Canary Islands. ISBN 978-84-241-3555-3.
- Rushforth, K. D. (1999). Trees of Britain and Europe. ISBN 978-0-00-220013-4.
- Vitousek, P. M. , L. R. Whiteaker, D. Mueller-Dombois & P. A. Matson (1987). "Biological invasion by Myrica faya alters ecosystem development in Hawai'i". Science 238: 802–804. Science is the Academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is considered one of the world's most prestigious Scientific doi:. A digital object identifier ( DOI) is a permanent identifier given to an Electronic document.
- Vitousek, P. M. & L. R. Walker (1989). "Biological invasion by Myrica faya: Plant demography, nitrogen fixation, ecosystem effects". Ecological Monographs 59: 247–265. doi:. A digital object identifier ( DOI) is a permanent identifier given to an Electronic document.
- Flora Europaea: Myrica faya
- University of Hawaii: Myrica faya native habitats
- University of Hawaii: Myrica faya as an invasive species in Hawaii
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