wax myrtle in English

noun
1
an evergreen bayberry, especially the common Myrica cerifera of the southern US. The wax covering its nutlets is used for making scented candles.
I'm also looking at cherry laurel or wax myrtle as a privacy hedge.

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1. Common names include Bayberry, bay-rum tree, candleberry, sweet gale, and wax-myrtle

2. Dwarf wax myrtle is an evergreen shrub in the 2-to-4-foot range.

3. Myrica cerifera, commonly known as Bayberry, Wax Myrtle, Wild Cinnamon, Southern Bayberry, Wax Myrtle, Southern Wax Myrtle, Candle Berry, Arbre à suif, Myricae Cortex, Tallow Shrub, Wachsgagle, bay-rum tree, sweet gale, American Bayberry, Myrica, Vegetable Tallow, Vegetable Wax, Yang-mei, is a large, irregularly-shaped, dense-branching, nitrogen-fixing, suckering, fast-growing, evergreen

4. Bayberry, also known as wax myrtle, waxberry, or candelberry, is both a shrub and a tree

5. Bayberry or wax myrtle grows as a large evergreen shrub or small tree that is widely distributed throughout the southern and eastern US