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Eucryphia glutinosa, brush bush, is a large deciduous shrub or small tree from the moist woodlands of southern Chile, grown for its glossy foliage and fragrant late-summer white flowers. It needs moist, acidic soil and roots kept shaded from the sun.
Eucryphia glutinosa, commonly known as brush bush, nirrhe, and guindo santo, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cunoniaceae. It is endemic to Chile, where it inhabits moist woodland habitats in the Maule, Ñuble, Biobio, and Araucania regions. It is a large deciduous shrub or small tree, growing to 10 m (33 ft) tall by 6 m (20 ft) wide, with glossy dark green leaves turning red in autumn. Single (or occasionally double) four-petalled, fragrant white flowers with prominent stamens appear in late summer.
The Latin specific epithet glutinosa means "sticky, glutinous".
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eucryphia glutinosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
