St John's wort family

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St John's wort family - widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber Clusiaceae, family Clusiaceae, family Guttiferae, Guttiferae dilleniid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs Hypericales, order Hypericales, order Parietales, Parietales - a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae Calophyllum, genus Calophyllum - genus of tropical evergreen trees genus Clusia - tropical American aromatic trees or shrubs; often epiphytic; some stranglers Garcinia, genus Garcinia - evergreen trees and shrubs: mangosteens genus Hypericum, Hypericum - large almost cosmopolitan genus of evergreen or deciduous shrubs and herbs with often showy yellow flowers; cosmopolitan except tropical lowlands and Arctic or high altitudes and desert regions genus Mammea, Mammea - American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit genus Mesua, Mesua - genus of tropical Asiatic trees having large solitary flowers