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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WIL-YAK |
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WINTERGREEN , known botanically as Gaultheria procumbens, a member of the heath family (Ericaceae), is a small creeping, evergreen shrub with numerous short erect branches bearing in the upper part shortly-stalked oval, thick, smooth shining leaves with sharp
flowers
pink
bright crimson-red sub-globular, berry-like fruit consists of the much-enlarged fleshy calyx which surrounds the small thin-walled many-seeded capsule. The plant is a native of shady woods on sandy soil, especially in mountainous districts, in southern Canada and the northern United States; it is quite hardy
Salvador tea, in some parts of North America as a substitute for tea; and the fruits are eaten under the name of partridge or deer berries. Other names for the plant are tea-berry, checker-berry, box-berry, jersey
See Bentley and Trimen, Medicinal Plants, t. 164. WINTER'S BARK, the bark of Drimys Winteri, an evergreen tree belonging to the Magnolia
Mexico to the Straits of Magellan.End of Article: WINTERGREEN If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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