| Meaning | small shrubs of scrub and dry woodland regions / regions of southern Europe and North Africa; grown for their showy flowers and soft often downy and aromatic evergreen foliage. |
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| Synonym | rock rose |
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| Member of | Cistus, genus Cistus | small to medium-sized evergreen shrubs of southern Europe and North Africa |
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| Narrower | common gum cistus, Cistus ladanifer, Cistus ladanum | shrub having white flowers and viscid stems and leaves yielding a fragrant oleoresin used in perfumes especially as a fixative |
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| white-leaved rockrose, Cistus albidus | Compact white pubescent shrub of southwestern Europe having pink flowers |
| Broader | shrub, bush | A low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems |
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| Spanish | jara |
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