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Bursera

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Noun1.Bursera - type genus of Burseraceae; tropical and subtropical American shrubs and trees some yielding timber and gum elemi
genus Bursera
rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants
Burseraceae, family Burseraceae, torchwood family - resinous or aromatic chiefly tropical shrubs or trees
Bursera microphylla, elephant tree - small tree or shrub of the southwestern United States having a spicy odor and odd-pinnate leaves and small clusters of white flowers
Bursera simaruba, gumbo-limbo - tropical American tree yielding a reddish resin used in cements and varnishes
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100 84 41 glauca 2006 ELDER Blue Sambucus cerulea 2005 136 30 38 Mexican Sambucus mexicana 2005 95 41 26 Pacific red Sambucus callicarpa 2001 56 27 32 ELEPHANT-TREE Bursera microphylla 2005 34 16 28 ELLIOTTIA Elliottia racemosa 1989 36 47 20 ELM American Ulmus americana 2007 246 136 85 Cedar Ulmus crassifolia 2001 156 120 68 Florida Ulmus americana var.
The National Register of Big Trees 2008 by Dawley, Margo; Phillips, Janelle / American Forests
Known to science as Bursera microphyllo, torote is recognized by its aromatic leaves and reddish-brown branches.
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She analyzed DNA to figure out evolutionary lineages for Bursera plants and the Blepharida beetles whose larvae feast on the plants' leaves.
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