NOUN
- any shrub or small tree of the genus Myrica with aromatic foliage and small wax-coated berries
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- I'm also looking at cherry laurel or wax myrtle as a privacy hedge.
- The northern wax myrtle and the Pacific wax myrtle may be dioecious or monecious. Homepage
- In addition to the oaks, the city lost wax myrtles, hackberries, weeping willows and magnolias.
- The maritime forests include live oak, laurel oak, loblolly pine, red cedar, yaupon holly, wax myrtle, dwarf palmetto, with cabbage palm (Sabal palmetto) in the south. Ecoregions of North Carolina and South Carolina (EPA)
- Native shrubs scattered beneath the canopy include buttonbush, dahoon holly, Virginia willow and wax myrtle.
- Slightly higher sandy areas are covered by shrub thicket characterized by wax myrtle, silverling, red cedar, yaupon and Hercules 'club. North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve
- Native plants, like wax myrtle varieties of yaupon hollies to name a few, are popular plants for southern gardens.
- Native buttonbush and Southern wax myrtle put up with poor drainage.
- A dense understory of palmetto, gallberry, wax myrtle and grasses supply abundant cover and forage for deer. 100 Best Public-Land Hunts: Georgia
- Native perennials such as yarrow and coyote bush were set into a hillside where a stand of eucalyptus had been leveled; Douglas iris and rushes were added to the boggy area where the spring bubbles from below the trunk of a wax myrtle. SFGate: Top News Stories