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Definition of Persea borbonia
1. Noun. Small tree of southern United States having dark red heartwood.
Generic synonyms: Laurel
Group relationships: Genus Persea, Persea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Persea Borbonia
Literary usage of Persea borbonia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Twigs and petioles densely tomentose. i. Persea borbonia (L.) Spreng. Red or
Sweet Bay. Fig. 1967. ... Persea borbonia Spreng. Syst. 2: 268. 1825. ..."
2. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1905)
"... red bay (Persea borbonia), and red mulberry (Morns rubra) often attained the
proportions of trees, and almost reached the top of the dunes. ..."
3. Pamphlets on Forestry in North Carolina (1897)
"In the eastern section of North Carolina it is largely manufactured into lumber.
.The best logs are usually sawed into furniture squares. Persea borbonia ..."
4. Manual of the Trees of North America (exclusive of Mexico) by Charles Sprague Sargent (1922)
"Persea borbonia Spreng. Red Bay. Leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, entire,
often slightly contracted into a long point rounded at apex, gradually narrowed ..."
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