1) Australian heath
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Epacris is a genus of about 35–40 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae, though formerly often treated in a separate family Epacridaceae. The genus is native to eastern and southeastern Australia (southeast Queensland south to Tasmania and west to southeast South Australia), New Caledonia and New Zealand. The species are known as h...
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• (n.) A genus of shrubs, natives of Australia, New Zealand, etc., having pretty white, red, or purple blossoms, and much resembling heaths.
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Ep'a·cris (ĕp'ȧ*krĭs)
noun [ New Latin , from Greek
'e`pakros pointed at the end. So called in allusion to the sharply pointed leaves.]
(Botany) A genus of shrubs, natives of Australia, New Zealand, etc., having pretty white, red, or purple blossoms, and much...
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Epacris is a genus of monopetalous exogens, the typical genus of the natural order Epacridaceae, distinguished by having a coloured calyx with many bracts, a tubular corolla with smooth limb, stamens affixed to the corolla, and a five-valved many-seeded capsule. The species are shrubby plants, with axillary, white, red, or purple flowers, generally...
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n] - any heathlike evergreen shrub of the genus Epacris grown for their showy and crowded spikes of small bell-shaped or tubular flowers
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noun any heathlike evergreen shrub of the genus Epacris grown for their showy and crowded spikes of small bell-shaped or tubular flowers
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