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Use for: Lindens

• A plant genus (of the family Tiliaceae) of trees that are native in temperate regions and often planted as shade trees, that are distinguished by having cordate leaves, a winglike bract coalescent with the peduncle, indehiscent fruit with one or two seeds, and soft easily carved wood, and that have a strong hybridizing tendency. A few are outstanding as ornamental and shade trees.

• Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh's 300th anniversary or its celebration

• 1: a widely cultivated shrub (Camellia sinensis of the family Theaceae, the tea family) native to China, northern India, and southeastern Asia and having glossy green leaves and fragrant white flowers b: the leaves, leaf buds, and internodes of the tea plant prepared for use in beverages usually by immediate curing by heat or by such curing following a period of fermentation
• 2: an aromatic beverage prepared from tea leaves by soaking them in usually boiling water

Use for: peat moss

• a mass of dehydrated sphagnum plants used as a surgical dressing especially during World War I

• a genus of mosses that grow in wet acidic areas (such as bogs or swamps) where their remains become compacted with other plant debris to form peat