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n. - An Australian woody plant of the genus Brachychiton.

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  • The bottle-tree (Delabechea) grew more gregariously than we had ever seen it, in the stony banks of the channel of the torrent from the hills.
  • Is not the land of the banana, the palm and the cedar, entitled to recognition, as well as the land of the gidyea, the boree, and the bottle-tree?
  • Thanks for the bottle-tree mention (the link is not quite right, but I appreciate the thought), and I look forward to seeing what else you guys come up with.
  • In that of Adelaide we see the Australian bottle-tree, which is a native of this country only.
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