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Sarcococca confusa Sealy

Sweet Box

Buxaceae · China South-Central

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Sarcococca confusa, photograph (c) pollenizeowen, some rights reserved (CC BY)Sarcococca confusa, photograph (c) Clive Edgar, some rights reserved (CC BY)Sarcococca confusa, photograph (c) Clive Edgar, some rights reserved (CC BY)Sarcococca confusa, photograph Denis.prévôt, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSarcococca confusa, photograph Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSarcococca confusa, photograph Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 15 photographs ›

Summary

Sarcococca confusa, the sweet box, is a species of flowering plant in the family Buxaceae, probably native to western China. It is an evergreen shrub growing to 2 m (7 ft) tall by 1 m (3 ft) broad, with glossy green ovate leaves and honey-scented white flowers in winter, followed by glossy black spherical fruits, 5 mm in diameter.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Sarcococca confusa", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeChina South-Central · introduced: Italy · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“subshrub or shrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced record lies inside the stated native range, and all 93 georeferenced records read lie outside it: the range and the records disagree. They are not used, and no map marker or climate is derived from them.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) pollenizeowen, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Clive Edgar, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); Denis.prévôt, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Sarcococca 5 in the reference

Sarcococca coriacea Sarcococca coriacea Buxaceae Photo: CC BY, Jyotsna NagSarcococca hookeriana Sarcococca hookeriana Himalayan sweet box Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof GolikSarcococca orientalis Sarcococca orientalis Christmas box Photo: CC BY-SA, Denis.prévôtSarcococca ruscifolia Sarcococca ruscifolia Sweet-box Photo: CC BY, A. BarraSarcococca saligna Sarcococca saligna Willow-leaf sweet box Photo: CC BY, Cheng-Te Hsu

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Buxaceae
Described by
Sealy
Native to
China South-Central
Wild records
none in range · 93 outside it

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 9 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (6 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 3 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 13 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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