Christmas bush
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editChristmas bush (plural Christmas bushes)
- Plants, of mostly unrelated species, that bloom around Christmas time.
- A small tree or shrub that occurs in all Australian states of species Bursaria spinosa.
- A New South Wales Christmas bush), a tall shrub from Australia of species Ceratopetalum gummiferum.
- A tropical shrub of species Chromolaena odorata, of the sunflower family.
- A poisonous shrub of species Comocladia dodonaea, of Caribbean islands.
- A New Zealand Christmas bush of species Metrosideros excelsa and Metrosideros kermadecensis)
- A Victorian Christmas bush (Prostanthera lasianthos), a shrub of Australia.
- A legume from northern South America of species Senna bicapsularis.