Non scientific name details for myrica cerifera - Medicinal Plant Names Services

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Non-scientific name:

myrica cerifera

1 Accepted name(s) for "myrica cerifera":

Accepted name
Myrica cerifera L.

3 Medicinal source(s) include this non-scientific name:

Medicinal sources:	Scientific names as used in medicinal source:	MPNS matched scientific names:	Accepted name:	Trade forms:	Plant parts:
SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)	Myrica cerifera	Myrica cerifera L. MPNS Best Guess	Myrica cerifera L.
U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)	Morella cerifera (L.) Small	Morella cerifera (L.) Small	Myrica cerifera L.
U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)	Myrica cerifera L.	Myrica cerifera L.	Myrica cerifera L.

9 Non-scientific name(s) associated with "myrica cerifera":

Non-scientific names:	Class of name:	Medicinal sources:
bayberry	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
berry wax	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
candle berry	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
candleberry	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
fallow shrub	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
southern bayberry	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
tallow shrub	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
wax myrtle	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
waxmyrtle	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)