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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Nances, Willows, and Allies
  6. Ironplum Family
  7. Drypetes

genus

Drypetes

Drypetes

Traits
Includes
2 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Yellow Tulipwood
  • Drypetes littoralis
  • Milkbark native
  • Guiana Plum native
  • Rosewood
  • Drypetes dolichocarpa
  • Drypetes glauca
  • Drypetes alba

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Trees
Plant type
Perennial Shrub Tree

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native Drypetes All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Guiana Plum Drypetes lateriflora caterpillars 2
  • Milkbark Drypetes diversifolia caterpillars 1

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