This plant in our local people claimed as natural mosquitoes repellent, has a long-narrow foliage, woody base stem and has a smell like the "tooth-paste", blooms a stick of white tny flowers. i don't know what its name, someone who knows pls help id, thanks..
Just wondering, the native Euodia here have had a name change to Melicope is that true for all Euodia? I can't seem to find info on any other than the Aussie natives having changed. (There's an Evodia that's also ended up as Melicope) from lack of further information I am guessing it was just the Aussie natives.. Though micheal's link suggests Euodia and Evodia are synonymous with one another it doesn't mention further name changes. I wonder if someone's put a v instead of a u somewhere along the line, from what I've seen at nurseries it's highly likely.... it's funny sometimes to see interpretations of names.... but bad if not corrected.
As far as I can tell from Australian Plant Names Index, some Australian Euodia have been transferred to Melicope (and some others also to Acronychia), but not all, with some retained in a narrower circumscription of Euodia. The eastern Asian species (e.g. former Euodia hupehensis) are now transferred to Tetradium. "Evodia" is just a spelling error for Euodia; it arose because some past botanists took the view that since classical Latin didn't use the letter 'u', it had to be written as 'v', but the ICBN explicitly allows modern letters not used in classical Latin.
Cheers Michael I have wondered about that one, it's going to take a while before name changes totally catch up through the nurseries, it seems a bit that way here. Interesting to note the reason for spelling... can't we all just agree and get along rather than create more headaches :}
thanks to Lila, Michael and Chungii for helping id this plant....you are all very kind to help me so now i know what it named, i won't be able to know the name without yours help.....thank you very much.. best regards, kasman
