Crossword clues for firebush
The Collaborative International Dictionary
firebush \firebush\ n.
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An evergreen South American shrub * Streptosolen jamesonii) having showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers; grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
Syn: marmalade bush, Streptosolen jamesonii.
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A densely branched Eurasian plant ( Bassia scoparia) whose foliage turns purple-red in autumn; also called burning bush.
Syn: summer cypress, burning bush, belvedere, Bassia scoparia, Kochia scoparia.
Wikipedia
Firebush is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
- Aronia arbutifolia
- Croton lucidus
- Embothrium coccineum (Chilean firebush)
- Euonymus alatus
- Hamelia patens
- Bassia scoparia (Mexican firebush)
Usage examples of "firebush".
Such was his skill and the combustibility of Avidan firebush that he soon had a good blaze going.
In the fading light his eyes had spotted a patch of firebushes on the shore, and it was to this point of the island that he desperately worked his way.
Fortunately, I lie firebushes were plentiful and readily responsive as finder.
He could find no firebushes and no other trees which were not so green with sap that to burn them would have caused much smoke.
Left, right, and rearward the land reached endless, red-purple mahovina turf, widespaced clumps of firebush and stands of windblown plume, here and there a pool ablink.