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escallonia

n. Any of several South American flowering plants of the genus ''Escallonia''

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Escallonia

Escallonia is a genus of 40 to 50 species of flowering plants of the Escalloniaceae family. Mostly evergreen shrubs (rarely small trees), they are native to South America.

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The gulls still filled the sky with their screams, the air still smelted of salty wind and privet and escallonia, and the narrow lanes of the old town, mazelike, were as confusing as they had ever been.