Wax myrtle
Myrica cerifera L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 14 m
- wide
- 3.0 m
Myricaceae
Also called Bayberry, Southern Bayberry, Common wax-myrtle, Southern Wax Myrtle
Formerly Cerophora angustifolia, Cerophora inodora, Cerophora lanceolata, Cerophora spicans, and 16 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- New Jersey to C. America, CaribbeanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from PFAF, one source
- Height
- 14 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 3.0 mRead from PFAF, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from PFAF, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -17.8 °C (USDA zone 7a)Read from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- árbol de la cera, Arrayán, Cerero
- root
- cololté, satí, Choyyiniyaachi
- myn
- chak-lol
- Czech
- voskovník obecný
- Russian
- Мирика восконосная
- Ojibwa
- Wasawasnimike
- Japanese
- シロコヤマモモ
- Estonian
- vahaporss
- Chinese (China)
- 蜡杨梅
- Chinese
- 蠟楊梅
- Polish
- woskownica amerykańska
- Slovak
- morela voskodarná
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- PFAF, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Myrica cerifera (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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