gallbush
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The large gallberry plant (Ilex coriacea).
- Water stood in the ditch the color of tea; it made a dark, mysterious mirror for the gallbush and towering cane.
- Byrd is mistaken in identifying the gallbush as a buckthorn; as noted above, it is actually a North American species of holly (Ilex cariacea).
- It conjured up a vista of arid wastes, of thorn and gallbush, of sharp-toothed prowling fands, of blood-seeking sting-whiffles that dropped noiseless from the sky to paralyze and feed upon their victims.
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