Myrtaceae
Common myrtle
Myrtus communis
- Family
- Myrtaceae
- Genus
- Myrtus
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Common names
By language (51)
- acm
- ياس
- aeb
- ريحان, عذارى, ڨمام
- Afrikaans
- Mirt
- Arabic
- آس, حمبلاس, ريحان, شجرة السكر, مرسين
- Asturian
- Mirtu
- azb
- عادی مرسین
- Azerbaijani
- Adi mərsin
- Basque
- Mirto
- Belarusian
- Мірт звычайны
- Catalan
- Murtra
- Central Kurdish
- مۆرد, مۆرتک
- Chinese
- 香桃木
- Corsican
- Murta
- Croatian
- Mirta
- csb
- Mërta
- Czech
- Myrta obecná
- Danish
- Almindelig Myrte
- Dutch
- Mirte
- English
- Common myrtle, Myrtle, True myrtle
- Esperanto
- Mirto
- Estonian
- Harilik mürt
- Finnish
- Välimerenmyrtti, Myrtti
- frr
- Myrte
- Galician
- Mirto
- German
- Myrte, Brautmyrte, Duftende Myrte, Gemeine Myrte
- grc
- Μυρσίνη
- Hebrew
- הדס מצוי
- hsb
- Wšědna myrta
- Hungarian
- Közönséges mirtusz, Mirtusz
- Italian
- Mirto, Mortella
- Japanese
- ギンバイカ, ミルテ, ミルト, 銀梅花
- kab
- Cilmun
- Korean
- 은매화
- Macedonian
- Обична мирта
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Myrt
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Myrt
- Persian
- مورد
- Polish
- Mirt zwyczajny
- Portuguese
- Mirto, Murta, Murta-comum
- Russian
- Мирт обыкновенный
- sc
- Murta
- Serbian (Latin)
- Mirta
- Slovak
- Myrta obyčajná
- Slovenian
- Navadna mirta, Grška mirta, Laška borovnica, Vedno zelena mirta
- Swedish
- Myrten
- Tatar
- Тубылак
- Thai
- เมอร์เทิล
- Ukrainian
- Мирт звичайний
- Vietnamese
- Hương đào
- vls
- Myrte
- Welsh
- Myrtwydd
Synonyms
- Myrtus augustinii Sennen & Malag.
- Myrtus communis subsp. mucronata Pers.
- Myrtus communis var. communis
- Myrtus communis var. italica (Mill.) Rouy & E.G.Camus
- Myrtus communis var. lusitanica Rouy
Flowers
- In flower
- May to July (from 927 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Ronald Flipphi, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: zebedeugalinha, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: zebedeugalinha, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FruitPhoto: zebedeugalinha, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Thomas Dreux, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: ArishG, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Acabashi, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: George E. Koronaios, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: zebedeugalinha, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Vítor Jorge, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.