NOUN | plant | Leucadendron, genus Leucadendron | large genus of evergreen trees and shrubs having silvery white leaves and solitary terminal flowers with conspicuous silvery bracts |
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Meaning | large genus of evergreen trees and shrubs having silvery white leaves and solitary terminal flowers with conspicuous silvery bracts. | |
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Synonym | genus Leucadendron | |
Member of | Proteaceae, family Proteaceae, protea family | large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers |
Members | silver tree, Leucadendron argenteum | small South African tree with long silvery silky foliage |
Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
Spanish | genus leucadendron, leucadendron | |
Catalan | genus leucadendron, leucadendron |
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