An evergreen South American shrub with pink or white flowers.
鼠刺属植物
Genus Escallonia, family Grossulariaceae
Example sentencesExamples
Fitzgerald began by planting windbreaks of Monteray pine and cypress, sycamore and escallonia to protect an amazing collection of plants from the southern hemisphere.
Origin
Modern Latin, named after Escallon, an 18th-century Spanish traveller who discovered the plants.