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Gaultheria procumbens
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  Gaultheria procumbens - creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oilcheckerberry, creeping wintergreen, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen, groundberry, ground-berryboxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen - spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oiloil of wintergreen, wintergreen oil - oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plantGaultheria, genus Gaultheria - widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubsshrublet - dwarf shrub |
gaultheria procumbens
 wintergreen wintergreenShiny, waxy oval pointed leaves, white hanging bell-shaped flowers, red berries. Leaves sometimes a bit brown or red. Gives the body strength. Doesn't die in winter, stays green year round (hence the name). Eat the leaves, make tea from them. Kind of a dull mint flavor. Tea used for colds, fever, headache, kidney, stomach, rheumatism, anti-inflammatory painkiller. Berries also edible. Do not make or take wintergreen essential oil, which is very toxic. It absorbs through skin and harms kidneys and liver.MedicalSeeWintergreenGaultheria procumbens
Related to Gaultheria procumbens: Arctostaphylos uva-ursiSynonyms for Gaultheria procumbensnoun creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oilSynonyms- checkerberry
- creeping wintergreen
- mountain tea
- teaberry
- wintergreen
- groundberry
- ground-berry
Related Words- boxberry
- checkerberry
- spiceberry
- teaberry
- wintergreen
- oil of wintergreen
- wintergreen oil
- Gaultheria
- genus Gaultheria
- shrublet
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