escallonia

British  

/ ˌɛskəˈləʊnɪə /

noun

1. any evergreen shrub of the South American saxifragaceous genus Escallonia, with white or red flowers: cultivated for ornament

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Etymology

Origin of escallonia

C19: from Escallon, 18th-century Spanish traveller who discovered it

Example Sentences

Escallonia Recently reporting of the war at sea has not been helped by the Admiralty's practice of holding up announcement of losses in merchantmen and warcraft for a fortnight or more.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such are the beautiful Lapageria and Philesia, the grand Pitcairneas, and the genera Fuchsia, Mitraria, Embothrium, Escallonia, Desfontainea, Eccremocarpus, and many Gesneraceae.

From Darwinism (1889) by Wallace, Alfred Russel

Escallonia philippiana.—Hardier than E. macrantha, and can be grown as a bush in a sheltered spot.

From Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by Cook, Ernest Thomas

Escallonia, a genus of saxifragaceous shrubs and trees, natives chiefly of the Andes.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

Here are several Choisyas and Sweet Verbenas, also Escallonia, Stuartia, and Styrax, and a long straggling group of some very fine Pentstemons.

From Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur by Jekyll, Gertrude