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Photo: Myrica gale.

Top of branch. You can see the way the leaf is serrated only at the top, not along the lower edges. That's sweet gale. It's also got a nice scent (but I can't get that online). BGBM, Berlin, Germany. Planted. 1995-06-01.


Myrica gale L.
Engl.: bog myrtle, sweet gale, bayberry, Dutch myrtle, English bog myrtle, gale, meadowfern, piment royal.
Deu.: Gagelstrauch.
Suom.: suomyrtti.
Sven.: pors, porsträ.
Pharm.: herba myrti rabantini.
Bot. syn.: Gale belgica Dumort., Gale palustre Chevall..
Pre-Linnaean: Mirtus