A deciduous shrub of boggy places, with short upright catkins and aromatic grey-green leaves with insecticidal properties.
香杨梅。亦称SWEET GALE
Myrica gale, family Myricaceae
Also called sweet gale
Example sentencesExamples
I remember a time when a company asked me to trial their new and all-natural insect repellent made from essence of bog myrtle.
She developed a repellent based on the oil of the bog myrtle plant, which is said to be relatively successful.
Recently, attention has focused on oil distilled from the leaves of bog myrtle.
Ninety-five per cent of its grain is Irish-grown; bog myrtle is picked on the mountain at the back of the brewery, and carrigeen moss is collected on the seashore ten miles away.
The sweet herbal aroma of bog myrtle drifts from the shallow mires that harbour a tangle of willows and silver-barked birch or are spattered yellow with asphodels and wine-red with insect-eating sundew leaves.
Return to the Southern Upland Way, and follow marker posts down through bracken and bog myrtle to a stile.
The air was heavy with the aromatic scent of bog myrtle.
But if you don't fancy the cream, other remedies which have been suggested include smearing yourself in Marmite, wearing light - coloured clothing and placing sprigs of bog myrtle behind your ears.
Definition of bog myrtle in US English:
bog myrtle
noun
another term for sweet gale
Example sentencesExamples
The air was heavy with the aromatic scent of bog myrtle.
Return to the Southern Upland Way, and follow marker posts down through bracken and bog myrtle to a stile.
But if you don't fancy the cream, other remedies which have been suggested include smearing yourself in Marmite, wearing light - coloured clothing and placing sprigs of bog myrtle behind your ears.
The sweet herbal aroma of bog myrtle drifts from the shallow mires that harbour a tangle of willows and silver-barked birch or are spattered yellow with asphodels and wine-red with insect-eating sundew leaves.
Ninety-five per cent of its grain is Irish-grown; bog myrtle is picked on the mountain at the back of the brewery, and carrigeen moss is collected on the seashore ten miles away.
I remember a time when a company asked me to trial their new and all-natural insect repellent made from essence of bog myrtle.
Recently, attention has focused on oil distilled from the leaves of bog myrtle.
She developed a repellent based on the oil of the bog myrtle plant, which is said to be relatively successful.