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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Myrtles, Evening Primroses, and Allies
  6. Myrtle Family
  7. Eugeniinae
  8. Stopper

genus

Stopper

Eugenia

Traits
Includes
5 native 1 introduced 2 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Eugenia 4 native
  • Dune Myrtle
  • Blackrodwood
  • Cedar Bay Cherry native
  • Bastard Blackberry
  • Agatelang
  • Eugenia domingensis
  • Eugenia bryanii
  • Eugenia boqueronensis
  • Eugenia glabrata
  • Paperbark Myrtleberry
  • Koʻolau Eugenia native
  • Eugenia umbellulifera
  • Earhart’s Stopper
  • Eugenia eggersii
  • Eugenia serrasuela
  • Pseudeugenia
  • Hexachlamys

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 stopper All

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

  • Spanish Stopper Eugenia foetida caterpillars 3 hosts 1
  • White Stopper Eugenia axillaris caterpillars 1 hosts 2
  • Redberry Stopper Eugenia confusa caterpillars 1
  • Red Stopper Eugenia rhombea caterpillars 1
  • Cedar Bay Cherry Eugenia reinwardtiana
  • Koʻolau Eugenia Eugenia koolauensis

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