Persea

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Noun 1. Persea - avocado
magnoliid dicot genus - genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms
family Lauraceae, Lauraceae, laurel family - a family of Lauraceae
avocado tree, Persea Americana, avocado - tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits
laurel-tree, Persea borbonia, red bay - small tree of southern United States having dark red heartwood
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In the upper montane evergreen broad-leaved forest (UMEB), Fagaceae and Theaceae species are dominant, such as Castanopsis wattii, Lithocarpus xylocarpus, Schima noronhae, Camellia taliensis, Camellia forrestii, but species from various families, such as Litsea honghoensis and Machilus bombycina (Lauraceae), Manglietia insignis (Magnoliacaea), Ilex gintungensis (Aquifoliaceae), Mahonia duclouxiana (Berberidaceae), Symplocos anomala (Symplococaceae) are also abundant.
Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of Daphnephila gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) inducing complex leaf galls on Lauraceae, with descriptions of five new species associated with Machilus thunbergii in Taiwan.
Three separate beetle galleries from surveyed trees (Machilus zuihoensis Hayata; Lauraceae) that displayed wilting of foliage were dissected.
Lee, "Anti-inflammatory and free radial scavenging activities of the constituents isolated from Machilus zuihoensis," Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), vol.
Compounds with neuroprotective activity from the medicinal plant Machilus thunbergii.
incana, Rhododendron arboreum, Lyonia, Machilus Hurla, Bhutti, Chakoli and odoratissima, Litsea umbrosa, Panarasa Range Myrica sapida, Symplocos crataegoides, Benthamidia Altitude-1518-2492m, capitata Aspect-northeastern, Eastern, I.
We also first reported that GC-MS is successful in discriminating Phoebe zhennan from Machilus pingii (Xu et al.

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