escallonia

escallonia

See also: Escallonia

English

Escallonia rubra. Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.

Wikispecies

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

escallonia (plural escallonias)

1. Any of several South American flowering plants of the genus Escallonia
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 51

     Behind them, again, was the grey-green garden, and among the pear-shaped leaves of the escallonia fishing-boats seemed caught and suspended.

Translations

plant of the genus Escallonia

Quechua: t'asta