Exbucklandia
Stock photos of plants of the genus Exbucklandia, which includes just three species, both evergreen trees that can grow to 30m tall, found from the eastern Himalayas and southern China to Java. They have distinctively shaped pointed oval leaves that are a little reminiscent of poplar foliage, but very thick, lustrous and leathery. The young leaves are bronze green. and the buds of the sprays of tiny white flowers that open in summer are enclosed in reddish sheathes. The name Exbucklandia is a rare example of a botanist being unable to come up with a new name. The trees were formerly known as Bucklandia but this name was already in use for a genus of extinct cycads; a new genus was needed and so it became the former bucklandia or "ex-bucklandia".
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