escallonia

/ ˌɛskəˈləʊnɪə /

noun

1. any evergreen shrub of the South American saxifragaceous genus Escallonia, with white or red flowers: cultivated for ornament

Word History and Origins

Origin of escallonia¹

C19: from Escallon, 18th-century Spanish traveller who discovered it

Example Sentences

Considering that Caruncho once transformed a property in New Zealand into overlapping sculpted mounds of escallonia to conjure the lava flow of a nearby volcano, and a golf course in Marrakesh, Morocco, into a Miesian grid of water and turf, these interventions, by comparison, seem subtle.

From New York Times

“We passed through the gate, groped stealthily but with sure feet up the carriage drive, mounted the little flight of rough steps,” wrote Woolf in a 1905 diary entry, adding that they peered through a chink in the escallonia hedge and “hung there like ghosts.”

From New York Times

Yet a few relics remain, including feathery spears of pampas grass near where Woolf would have played evening games of cricket, and mixed hedging around the garden’s bottom border that included Woolf’s beloved escallonia, “whose leaves, pressed, gave out a very sweet smell.”

From New York Times

The garden, now hedged in laurel and escallonia, was fully exposed to the street on two sides.

From Seattle Times

Among the low-growing shrubs which stand sea-exposure well are mentioned the sea-buckthorn, the snow-berry, the evergreen barberry, and the German tamarisk; to which should be added the euonymus and the escallonia.

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