snowdrop tree

See silverbell.

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snowdrop tree

(Plants) another name for silver bell

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Noun

snowdrop tree - medium-sized tree of West Virginia to Florida and Texas

Halesia carolina, Halesia tetraptera, opossum wood, silverbell tree, silver-bell tree

silver bell - any of various deciduous trees of the genus Halesia having white bell-shaped flowers

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"We've got some quite rare things such as a snowdrop tree. We've also got a conker tree plant which I first saw at the Cambridge University Botanical Gardens where I was a student.

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The garden features rare trees including the tulip tree - which is flowering for the first time after 15 years - the snowdrop tree and a Chilean fire tree.

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A Japanese maple and a Japanese snowdrop tree (Styrax japonicus) canopy the pond to shelter a mix of moisture-loving plants including Acorus gramineus with its fanlike leaves, purple-stemmed taro (Colocasia esculenta), more astilbe, assorted ferns, digitalis, hostas, and even sea oats (Chasmanthium latifolium).

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