snow daisy

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snow daisy

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Australia, New Zealand Any of various perennial herbs chiefly of the genus Celmisia, especially Celmisia asteliifolia, growing in high ground in southeastern Australia (including Tasmania) and New Zealand.

  • As he walks he spies a snow-daisy to one side of the pad.1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 90

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