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Kalmia latifolia, the mountain laurel, [3] calico-bush, [3] or spoonwood, [3] is a flowering plant and one of the 10 species in the genus of Kalmia belonging to the heath(er) family Ericaceae. It is native to the eastern United States. Its range stretches from southern Maine to northern Florida, and west to Indiana and Louisiana.
Mountain laurel blooms showing the conjoined petals. The leaves are 2–12 cm long and simple lanceolate. The flowers are white, pink or purple, in corymbs of 10–50, reminiscent of Rhododendron flowers but flatter, with a star-like calyx of five conjoined petals; each flower is 1–3 cm diameter.
The bay laurel is dioecious , with male and female flowers on separate plants. [8] Each flower is pale yellow-green, about 1 cm ( 3 ⁄ 8 in) diameter, and they are borne in pairs beside a leaf. The leaves are glabrous, 6–12 cm (2–5 in) long and 2–4 cm ( 3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) broad, with an entire (untoothed) margin.
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Bay laurel leaves (Laurus nobilis) Indian bay leaf Cinnamomum tamala Indonesian bay leaf Syzygium polyanthum The bay leaf is an aromatic leaf commonly used as a herb in cooking. It can be used whole, either dried or fresh, in which case it is removed from the dish before consumption, or less commonly used in ground form.
Unlike other "bay laurels" of the genus Laurus, Umbellularia has perfect flowers (male and female parts in the same flower). [ 10 ] The fruit , also known as "California bay nut", is a round and green berry 2–2.5 cm long and 2 cm broad, lightly spotted with yellow, maturing purple.
Flowers (June to July), edible raw, as a salad green, or pickled, or to make tea, or alcoholic beverages . Berries (August to October), edible when ripe (turning upside down) and cooked; raw berries are mildly poisonous [29] Whitebeam: Sorbus aria: Central and southern Europe: Berries, edible raw once overripe [30] Rowan, Mountain-ash: Sorbus ...
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