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 October 26, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:

     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