''Ochrosia borbonica'' is a species of

plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclu ...

in the family

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. It is native to

Mauritius Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label= Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It ...

and Réunion, and naturalized in

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Province in China.Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 163 玫瑰树 mei gui shu ''Ochrosia borbonica'' J. F. Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 2: 439. 1796.
/ref> The species is listed as endangered.

References

borbonica Endangered plants Flora of Mauritius Flora of Réunion Plants described in 1791 Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Apocynaceae-stub