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Mountain laurel   /mˈaʊntən lˈɔrəl/   Listen
Mountain laurel

noun
1.
A North American evergreen shrub having glossy leaves and white or rose-colored flowers.  Synonyms: American laurel, calico bush, Kalmia latifolia, wood laurel.
2.
Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood.  Synonyms: California bay tree, California laurel, California olive, Oregon myrtle, pepperwood, sassafras laurel, spice tree, Umbellularia californica.






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"Mountain laurel" Quotes from Famous Books



... certainly is a feast to the eyes. However much we may admire the small, deep crimson-pink flowers that we find in June and July in moist fields or swampy ground or on the hillsides, few of us will agree with Thoreau, who claimed that it is "handsomer than the Mountain Laurel." The low shrub may be only six inches high, or it may attain three feet. The narrow evergreen leaves, pale on the underside, have a tendency to form groups of threes, standing upright when newly put forth, but bent downward with the weight of age. A peculiarity of the plant is ...
— Wild Flowers Worth Knowing • Neltje Blanchan et al



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