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Definition of Fetter bush
1. Noun. Showy evergreen shrub of southeastern United States with shiny leaves and angled branches and clusters of pink to reddish flowers that resemble an umbel.
Group relationships: Genus Lyonia, Lyonia
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fetter Bush
Literary usage of Fetter bush
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (hardy, Cultivated) by Austin Craig Apgar (1910)
"MOUNTAIN fetter bush (420)—Andro- da floribunda (Pieris floribunda). to the last
but the flowers are much larger and in drooping clusters and the plant is ..."
2. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"MOUNTAIN FETTER-BUSH. Picris floribunda. FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF ...
P. nítida, fetter-bush, throws out its small flowers in axillary umbels, ..."
3. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1907)
"On the dry plains of Long Island, where it is common indeed, it appears a not
unworthy relative of the Fetter-bush (Pieris floribunda), ..."
4. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Fetter-bush, etc. Ericaceae. Dedicated to the Muse, Pieris. Syn. ... of southeastern
US and Cuba is called Fetter- bush and Pipe-stem. 1593. ..."
5. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1900)
"On the dry plains of Long Island, where it is common indeed, it appears a not
unworthy relative of the Fetter-bush (Pieris floribunda), that exquisite ..."
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