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Sexton's Bride

Rhaphiolepis umbellata

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) petrelbop, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

Japanese cheesewoodPittosporum tobira

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in New Zealand.

New Zealand	215
Portugal	129
RegiÃ£o AutÃ³noma dos AÃ§ores	129
China	62
Wellington Region	59
Japan	58
Auckland Region	58
Taiwan	55
Taiwan Province	54
New Taipei	42

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Classification

Kingdom	Plants · Plantae
Phylum	Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Class	Dicots · Magnoliopsida
Order	Roses, Elms, Figs, and Allies · Rosales
Family	rose family · Rosaceae
Genus	Rhaphiolepis

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Plants of Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia

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Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
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