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epacris

DEFINITIONS OF: epacris

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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

Types:
Epacris impressa, common heath
spindly upright shrub of southern Australia and Tasmania having white to rose or purple-red flowers
Epacris obtusifolia, blunt-leaf heath, common heath
small erect shrub of Australia and Tasmania with fragrant ivory flowers
Epacris purpurascens, Port Jackson heath
small shrub of southern and western Australia having pinkish to rosy purple tubular flowers
Type of:
Australian heath
any heathlike plant of the family Epacridaceae; most are of the Australian region
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