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Baccharis

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Noun1.Baccharis - shrubs of western hemisphere often having honey-scented flowers followed by silky thistlelike heads of tiny fruits; often used for erosion control
asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
aster family, Asteraceae, Compositae, family Asteraceae, family Compositae - plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia
Baccharis halimifolia, consumption weed, cotton-seed tree, groundsel bush, groundsel tree - a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts
Baccharis viminea, mule fat - California shrub with slender leafy shoots that are important browse for mule deer
Baccharis pilularis, chaparral broom, coyote brush, coyote bush, kidney wort - widely spreading evergreen shrub of southwestern United States with flower heads in a leafy panicle


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They wanted to see how effective sucrose, sucralose, polydextrose and milk would be in reducing the bitterness, astringency and characteristic flavor of antioxidant extracts of two Uruguayan native plants: Achyrocline satureioides and Baccharis trimera.
Originally, they were dominated by gallery forests of native trees, such as Populus fremontii and poplars (Salix gooddingii) and species like Baccharis salicifolia.
Baccharis illinita DC, found in Brazil's subtropical region, is popularly known as "cha-ventura" or "ervamilagrosa" and is widely used in folk medicine for its anti-inflammatory activity, activity against infectious diseases, as well as for its protective action against stomach ulcers (Baggio et al.
 
 
 
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