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snowberries
Symphoricarpos
Symphoricarpos, commonly known as the snowberry, waxberry, or ghostberry, is a small genus of about 15 species of deciduous shrubs in the honeysuckle family, Caprifoliaceae. With the exception of the Chinese coralberry, S. sinensis, which is indigenous to western China, all species are native to North and Central America. The name of the genus is derived from the Greek words συμφορειν (symphorein), meaning "to bear together", and καρπος (karpos), meaning "fruit". It refers to the closely...
14 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Common Snowberry
speciesSymphoricarpos albus
coralberry
speciesSymphoricarpos orbiculatus
Western Snowberry
speciesSymphoricarpos occidentalis
creeping snowberry
speciesSymphoricarpos mollis
Roundleaf Snowberry
speciesSymphoricarpos rotundifolius
Pink Snowberry
speciesSymphoricarpos microphyllus
fragrant snowberry
speciesSymphoricarpos longiflorus
Chenault Coralberry
hybridSymphoricarpos × chenaultii
Doorenbos' Coralberry
hybridSymphoricarpos × doorenbosii
mountain snowberry
speciesSymphoricarpos oreophilus
Symphoricarpos palmeri
speciesSymphoricarpos palmeri
Symphoricarpos sinensis
speciesSymphoricarpos sinensis
sharpleaf snowberry
speciesSymphoricarpos acutus
McKittrick's Snowberry
speciesSymphoricarpos guadalupensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48528.