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arbutus
DCHP-2 (Sep 2016)
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n. — British Columbia, Flora
a broadleaf evergreen tree, Arbutus menziesii, native to the west coast of North America. Trees have dark and glossy leaves, white flowers, red berries and characteristic peeling red bark.
Type: 5. Frequency — The arbutus tree grows from southern British Columbia to California near the ocean. It is known most commonly as arbutus in Canada (see Chart 1), and in the US it is more often called madrone (see Chart 1 of the madrone entry). The term arbutus is most prevalent in British Columbia (see Chart 2). See also the British Columbia government's Tree Book reference below.
See: madrone
Quotations
1947
[...] growing on the same branch; lovely arbutus and the spring lily-of-the-valley clusters, and autumnal orange-colored berries of the tall arbutus tree; [...]
1989
And nowhere in the province is loafing more appropriate than along the sandstone-cliffed shores of these islands, where ochre-skinned Arbutus trees overhang Pacific waters - housing the biggest colonies of sea anemones in the world.
1999
Trees such as Mountain ash, the pretty purple flowering plum, arbutus, dogwood and maple start easily and readily from seed.
References
- Tree Book
Images
Image 1: An arbutus tree. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Photo: W. Siegmund
Chart 1: Internet Domain Search, 5 Jul. 2013
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