NOUN | plant | incienso, brittlebush, brittle bush, Encelia farinosa | fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers |
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Meaning | fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine. | |
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Synonyms | brittlebush, brittle bush, Encelia farinosa | |
Member of | Encelia, genus Encelia | genus of shrubs of southwestern United States and Mexico |
Broader | wildflower, wild flower | wild or uncultivated flowering plant |
Spanish | incienso |
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