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Species: Myrica cerifera
Collection Date: April 22, 1957
Bar Code ID: 000062092
UUID: 9fb244ed-ecc9-46db-aae0-2b923f158045
Collectors: R. L. Wilbur
Collector's Identifier: 5217
Flower Buds Present?: True
Fruit Present?: True
Country: United States
State or Province: North Carolina
County or Parish: Sampson
Fips Code: 37163
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Verbatim Directions to Locality: 1.2 miles north of Salemburg on Route 242.
Habitat: Abundant in dry open sandy woods.
Plant Morphology Observations: Bushy shrub 2.5 m. high. Staminate.
Local Abundance Observations: With pines (loblolly and longleaf) and turkey oak.
Non digital information?: N

Identification Records

Identifier's Name: J. Rex Baird
Text Identification Date: 1968
Identification History: Morella cerifera (L.) Small Syn. Myrica Cerifera L. -- Fernald,--Gleason Cerothamnus ceriferus (L.) Small -- Small
Identifier's Name: Barney L. Lipscomb
Text Identification Date: 1985
Identification History: Myrica Cerifera L.
Identifier's Name: R. L. Wilbur
Text Identification Date: 1993
Identification History: Morella cerifera (L.) Small

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