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sophiejhart

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May 12, 2012 01:26 PM PDT
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botanygirl

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Apr 21, 2012
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tewksjj

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May 5, 2012 12:09 PM PDT

Description

Mountain lover, often called boxwood, URL for wiki page is listed under paxistima...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxistima_myrsinites

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Description from Wikipedia

The Celastraceae (or staff vine or bittersweet family; syn. Canotiaceae, Chingithamnaceae, Euonymaceae, Goupiaceae, Lophopyxidaceae, and Siphonodontaceae in Cronquist system), is a family of about 90-100 genera and 1,300 species of vines, shrubs and small trees, belonging to the order Celastrales. The great majority of the genera are tropical, with only Celastrus (the staff vines), Euonymus (the spindles) and Maytenus widespread in temperate climates.

No range data available.