coral gem

coral gem
noun
low-growing much-branched perennial of Canary Islands having orange-red to scarlet or purple flowers; naturalized in United States
Syn: ↑Lotus berthelotii
Hypernyms: ↑subshrub, ↑suffrutex

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noun
: a small much-branched shrub (Lotus bertheletii) of the Canary islands

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