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Arbutus
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synonyms: madrones, tick tree ???
tags: [botany]
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Definition:The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---small trees or shrubs with red flaking bark and edible red berries. Fruit development is delayed for about five months after pollination, so that flowers appear while the previous year's fruit are ripening. [...]It is Canada's only native broadleaved evergreen tree.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
photo: By Didier Descouens - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11929345
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As for Evan, he wandered off moodily by himself among the lilacs and arbutus bushes of the lower shrubbery.
Grant Allen. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories (1884)
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