spurge laurel

noun

The spurge laurel is a small evergreen shrub, with alternate somewhat lanceolate leaves with entire margins.

The last of the plants mentioned above under the name of laurel is the so-called spurge laurel (Daphne Laureola).

The bark furnishes the drug Cortex Mezerei, for which that of the spurge laurel is often substituted.

Cleg pushed his way through the thickly matted copses of spurge laurel and wet-shot alder.

They all need a peaty soil, and may be increased by grafting on to the common Spurge Laurel.

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