Styrax occurs as genus of about One c mintage of big shrubs or small trees in the family Styracaceae, mostly native to caring moderate to tropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with a majority within eastern & southeastern Asia, but likewise crossing a equator in South America.

It develop to Two-14 m tall, & use alternate, deciduous or evergreen simple ovate leaves 1-18 cm long & Two-10 cm broad. A flowers are nodding, by owning the whiten Five-10-lobed corolla, produced Three-30 together in open or even heavy panicles 5-25 cm hanker. A fruit is an oblong dry drupe, smooth with there is no ribs or even narrow wings (present in the related genera Halesia and Pterostyrax). Most common list include Styrax, Storax, Styrax obassia & Benzoin.

;Selected species Styrax agrestis - China Styrax americanum - southeastern United States Styrax argentifolius - China Styrax bashanensis - China Styrax benzoides - Thailand, southern China Styrax benzoin - Sumatra Styrax calvescens - China Styrax chinensis - China Styrax chrysocarpus - China Styrax confusus - China Styrax dasyanthus - central China Styrax faberi - China Styrax formosanus - China Styrax grandiflorus - China Styrax grandifolium - southeastern United States Styrax hainanensis - southern China Styrax hemsleyanum - China Styrax hookeri - Himalaya Styrax huanus - China Styrax japonicus - Japan Styrax limpritchii - southwest China (Yunnan) Styrax loxensis - Ecuador Styrax macranthus - China Styrax macrocarpus - China Styrax obassia - Japan, China Styrax odoratissimus - China Styrax officinale - southeast Europe, south-west Asia Styrax perkinsiae - China Styrax philadelphoides - China Styrax platanifolius - Texas, north-east Mexico Styrax portoricensis - Caribbean Styrax rediviva - California (syn. S. officinalis volt-ampere. californica) Styrax roseus - China Styrax rugosus - China Styrax schweliense - american China Styrax serrulatus - Himalaya, sou'west China Styrax shiraianum - Japan Styrax suberifolius - China Styrax supaii - China Styrax tonkinensis - southeast Asia Styrax veitchiorum - China Styrax wilsonii - american China Styrax wuyuanensis - China Styrax zhejiangensis - China

Cultivation and uses
Many mintage come popular ornamental trees in parks & gardens. Benzoin resin is produced from various mintage (in the main S. benzoides & S. benzoin) indigene to Sumatra, Java, and Thailand. These are a dried exudation from either the punctured bark, and is utilized within perfumes, some rather incense and medicine.