flowering shrub
Noun
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Shrub noted primarily for its flowers (synset 113140762)
subtypes:
- bird of paradise, caesalpinia gilliesii, poinciana, poinciana gilliesii - a tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana
- caesalpinia pulcherrima, flamboyant tree, paradise flower, poinciana pulcherrima, pride of barbados - tropical shrub or small tree having showy yellow to orange-red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana
- alpine golden chain, laburnum alpinum, scotch laburnum - an ornamental shrub or tree of the genus Laburnum
- common laburnum, golden chain, golden rain, laburnum anagyroides - an ornamental shrub or tree of the genus Laburnum; often cultivated for Easter decorations
- asiatic sweetleaf, sapphire berry, symplocus paniculata - deciduous shrub of eastern Asia bearing decorative bright blue fruit
belongs to: angiospermae, anthophyta, class angiospermae, division anthophyta, division magnoliophyta, magnoliophyta - comprising flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary; in some systems considered a class (Angiospermae) and in others a division (Magnoliophyta or Anthophyta)
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