白水木
Messerschmidia argentea (L.) Johnston.
科 名:紫草科(Boraginaceae)
屬名:紫丹屬(Tournefortia)
別名:白水草、水草、山埔姜、山草、銀丹
原產地:中國海南島、西沙群島及臺灣。熱帶亞洲、馬達加斯加、馬來西亞、熱帶澳洲、日本、越南及斯里蘭卡及太平洋諸島有分佈。
分布:生長在臺灣南北兩端沿海及蘭嶼、綠島的海濱珊瑚礁上、沙灘上
Origin:China's Hainan Island, Xisha Islands and Taiwan. It is distributed in tropical Asia, Madagascar, Malaysia, tropical Australia, Japan, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and the Pacific islands.
Distribution: grows on the coastal coral reefs and beaches of the north and south ends of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island.