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Tomentose   Listen
Tomentose

adjective
1.
Covered with densely matted filaments.
2.
Densely covered with short matted woolly hairs.  Synonym: tomentous.






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... villosum and L. Ibota villosum).—Chinese Privet. China, 1858. This is a tall deciduous shrub, with oblong and tomentose leaves, and flowers in loose, terminal panicles and produced freely in August. L. sinense nanum is one of the prettiest forms in cultivation. It is almost evergreen, with a horizontal mode of growth, and dense spikes of crearny-white flowers, so thickly ...
— Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs • A. D. Webster



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