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Caprifoliaceae (elder family)

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) >  Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots >  Asterids >  Euasterid II >  Dipsacales

Distribution: worldwide but limited distribution in Africa. No indigenous species in southern Africa.

Exotic genera cultivated in southern Africa

Abelia

Four species and a number of hybrids grown in southern Africa.

Abelia sp.

Diervilla

 

Kolkwitzia

 

Leycesteria

 

Lonicera

 

Sambucus

 

Symphoricarpos

 

Viburnum

 

Weigela

About 12 species, native to E Asia. Four species have been cultivated as garden plants in southern Africa.

 

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