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pachysandra

DEFINITIONS OF: pachysandra

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n any plant of the genus Pachysandra; low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover

Types:
Allegheny mountain spurge, Allegheny spurge, Pachysandra procumbens
low semi-evergreen perennial herb having small spikes of white or pinkish flowers; native to southern United States but grown elsewhere
Japanese spurge, Pachysandra terminalis
slow-growing Japanese evergreen subshrub having terminal spikes of white flowers; grown as a ground cover
Type of:
subshrub, suffrutex
low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base
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