Laurus azorica (Laurus azorica)
Description
The bay tree is either a shrub or small tree, usually growing to a height of from 20 to 30 feet. The leaves are short-petioled, oblong-lanceolate or oblong, veined, entire, or occasionally repand, somewhat acute at each end, and alternately affixed. They are smooth, leathery, glossy-green above, and paler beneath. The veins meet the midrib at an acute angle, and by means of small lateral veinlets, form a network which does not anastomose prominently near the leaf-margin. The flowers are dioecious, yellow, or yellowish-white, axillary, and borne in umbellate clusters. The fruit is an oval, deep-purple, almost black drupe.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum:
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Laurales
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Family: Lauraceae
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Genus: Laurus
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