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Buxus sempervirens

Flowering Plants

Buxus sempervirens, known as common box, European box or boxwood, is an evergreen flowering shrub or small tree in the family Buxaceae, native to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia, from southern England south to northern Morocco and east through the northern Mediterranean to Turkey. It typically grows one to nine metres tall, occasionally to ten, with small opposite leaves that are green to yellow green, oval, 1.5 to 3 centimetres long and 0.5 to 1.3 centimetres wide, and inconspicuous, petal-less, greenish yellow monoecious flowers that give rise to a three lobed seed capsule. The related Buxus colchica of the western Caucasus and B. hyrcana of northern Iran are generally treated as synonyms of this species. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts

Classification

Diet

Photosynthetic Autotroph 1

System (Realm)

Terrestrial 2

Relationship to People

Used in Traditional Medicine 3

Living or Extinct

Yes 4

Comparison

NatureServe Rank

GNR Unranked 5

CITES Appendix

Not Listed 6

Scientific Name

Buxus sempervirens 4

Conservation Status

Least Concern 4

Connections

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Source Buxus sempervirens (Wikidata)

In Biome

Temperate Forest

Source Plants For A Future: Buxus sempervirens

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Sources

1. Buxus sempervirens (Wikipedia)

Lead, sentence naming the group it belongs to

Quote, Lead, sentence naming the group it belongs to

Buxus sempervirens, the common box, European box, or boxwood, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Buxus, native to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and southwest Asia, from southern England south to northern Morocco, and east through the northern Mediterranean region to Turkey.

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2. GBIF Species API

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3. Plants For A Future: Buxus sempervirens

Plants For A Future

Medicinal Uses
Although it has been used medicinally in the past as a sedative and to treat syphilis, box is very rarely used in modern herbalism[268].
In Biome: Temperate Forest, Habitats
Beechwood and scrub, usually on chalk and limestone

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4. Buxus sempervirens (Wikidata)

Wikidata

Wikidata Q27344 (P225 taxon name)
Wikidata P141 (IUCN conservation status) claim, entity QID Q27344
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
Child Taxon Of: Magnoliopsida, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain

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5. NatureServe Explorer: Buxus sempervirens

NatureServe ExplorerGlobal rank (roundedGRank)

Quote, Global rank (roundedGRank)

"roundedGRank": "GNR"

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6. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Plantae

UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 45

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"cites_listing":"I/II/III/NC","eu_listing":"A/B/C/D/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Plantae","phylum":null,"class":null,"order":null,"family":null},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[{"name":"Plants","language":"EN"},{"name":"Flora","language":"EN"}],"cites_listings":[]

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Plant (Wikipedia)

Lead, whole group is photosynthetic

Quote, Lead, whole group is photosynthetic

They are predominantly photosynthetic or came from photosynthetic ancestors, meaning that they obtain their energy from sunlight by using the green pigment chlorophyll in their chloroplasts to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water.

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