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• n  a North American evergreen shrub having glossy leaves and white or rose-colored flowers
• n  Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood

• wood laurel
• American laurel
• calico bush
• Kalmia latifolia
• California laurel
• California bay tree
• Oregon myrtle
• pepperwood
• spice tree
• sassafras laurel
• California olive
• Umbellularia californica

News & Articles

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• The Stone Arch Bridges Of Wadsworth Falls State Park
  In Connecticut, the robin is the state bird, "Yankee Doodle" is the state song, the mountain laurel is the state flower and, of course, the sperm whale is the state mammal.        
  June 13, 2013 - Hartford Courant