Laurel

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Lauraceae, the botanical laurel family, including:

Other unrelated plants:

  • Cherry laurel (Prunus laurocerasus), an evergreen cherry, often called just laurel in gardens.CH
  • Cherry laurel (Prunus caroliniana), in America.CH
  • Great laurel (Rhododendron maximum), another shrub of the Appalachian mountains.wp
  • Ground laurel (Epigaea)CH
  • Indian laurel, certain species of fig trees or banyans.wp
  • Laurel sumac (Malosma laurina), an aromatic, evergreen shrub of the southern California and Baja California coastlands.wp
  • Kalmias are known as laurelsCH.
    • Mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia), an evergreen shrub of the eastern United States highlands.wp
  • New Zealand laurel (Corynocarpus laevigatus), former name for Karaka tree.wp
  • Portugal laurel (Prunus lusitanica), also an evergreen cherry.CH
  • "Spotted laurel" refers to the variegata cultivar of the Aucuba Aucuba japonica.wp