Christmas bush

Noun

Christmas bush (plural Christmas bushes)

1. A small tree or shrub that occurs in all Australian states of species Bursaria spinosa.
2. A New South Wales Christmas bush), a tall shrub from Australia of species Ceratopetalum gummiferum.
3. A tropical shrub of species Chromolaena odorata, of the sunflower family.
4. A poisonous shrub of species Comocladia dodonaea, of Caribbean islands.
5. A New Zealand Christmas bush of species Metrosideros excelsa and Metrosideros kermadecensis)
6. A Victorian Christmas bush (Prostanthera lasianthos), a shrub of Australia.
7. A legume from northern South America of species Senna bicapsularis.