genus embothrium
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Small genus of South American evergreen shrubs or small trees with long willowy branches and flowers in flamboyant terminal clusters (synset 112236899)
is a type of: dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germinationmember holonym: chilean firebush, chilean flameflower, embothrium coccineum - grown for outstanding display of brilliant usually scarlet-crimson flowers; Andesbelongs to: family proteaceae, protea family, proteaceae - large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Protealessame as: embothrium
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