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Rhamnus frangula, (Frangula alnus), the alder buckthorn, is a tall deciduous shrub in the family Rhamnaceae. It is native to Europe, northernmost Africa, and western Asia, from Ireland and Great Britain north to 68°N in Scandinavia, east to central Siberia and Xinjiang in western China, and south to northern Morocco, Turkey, and the Alborz and Caucasus Mountains; in the northwest of its range (Ireland, Scotland), it is rare and scattered. It is also introduced and naturalised...

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1. (c) Frank Vincentz, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rhamnus_frangula_06_ies.jpg
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5. (c) Hans Hillewaert, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frangula_alnus_(flowers).jpg
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7. (c) Frank Vincentz, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rhamnus_frangula_04_ies.jpg
8. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frangula_alnus

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