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arbutus Arbutus DCHP-2 (September 2016)

• n. — British Columbia, Flora

  a broadleaf evergreen tree, Arbutus menziesii, native to the west coast of North America. Trees have dark and glossy leaves, white flowers, red berries and characteristic peeling red bark.

  Type: 5. Frequency — The arbutus tree grows from southern British Columbia to California near the ocean. It is known most commonly as arbutus in Canada (see Chart 1), and in the US it is more often called madrone (see Chart 1 of the madrone entry). The term arbutus is most prevalent in British Columbia (see Chart 2). See also the British Columbia government's Tree Book reference below.

  See also: madrone  

  • 1947  [...] growing on the same branch; lovely arbutus and the spring lily-of-the-valley clusters, and autumnal orange-colored berries of the tall arbutus tree; [...]
  • 1989  And nowhere in the province is loafing more appropriate than along the sandstone-cliffed shores of these islands, where ochre-skinned Arbutus trees overhang Pacific waters - housing the biggest colonies of sea anemones in the world. 
  • 1999  Trees such as Mountain ash, the pretty purple flowering plum, arbutus, dogwood and maple start easily and readily from seed. 
  • 2008  Occasional shipments to Britain and continental Europe included evergreens and such native trees as dogwood and arbutus.