wood rose

English

Noun

wood rose (plural wood roses)

Dactylanthus taylorii, parasitic plant of New Zealand that lives on the forest floor where it attaches to a host root of trees taking nutrients from the host to create a burr which eventually turns into a flower-like growth.
Hawaiian baby woodrose (Argyreia nervosa).
Rosa gymnocarpa, of California.
Merremia spp..

Translations

Dactylanthus taylorii

Maori: pua o Te Rēinga, pua rēinga

References

“wood rose”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
wood rose on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Dactylanthus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

Rosewood, orewoods, rosewood

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