Myrtaceae
Turpentine tree
Syncarpia glomulifera
- Family
- Myrtaceae
- Genus
- Syncarpia
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Common names
By language (5)
- Chinese
- 聚果木
- English
- Turpentine tree
- French
- Turpentine
- Hebrew
- סינקרפיה ערנית
- Spanish
- Kamptzia albens, Tristania albens
Synonyms
- Metrosideros glomeruliflora A.Gray
- Metrosideros glomulifera Sm.
- Nania glomulifera (Sm.) Kuntze
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Hawaii: introduced
Photos
Photo: Casliber, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Tristan VINCENT, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Danielle Stig, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Danielle Stig, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: paul Christopher, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Francisco Fajardo, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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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.