common gum cistus

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common gum cistus - shrub having white flowers and viscid stems and leaves yielding a fragrant oleoresin used in perfumes especially as a fixative Cistus ladanifer, Cistus ladanum rock rose, rockrose - small shrubs of scrub and dry woodland regions of southern Europe and North Africa; grown for their showy flowers and soft often downy and aromatic evergreen foliage ladanum, labdanum - a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative