Family: Myrtaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Shrub
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Native
Native Range:
Bermuda, the West Indies, peninsular Florida, Mexico and Central America.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
Comments:
For information and images from Eleuthera, visit the
Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve website. Also visit IRC's
Natives For Your Neighborhood website for horticultural information about this species in South Florida.
Synonyms:
Eugenia monticola of Acevedo-Rodriguez & Stong, not (Sw.) DC. This is an old error beginning with Dolley, Northrop and Hitchock (see Britton & Millspaugh, p. 303), apparently picked up in the Flora of the West Indies.
