ivy tree

noun

1

: a small often shrubby New Zealand evergreen tree (Nothopanax arboreum) of the family Araliaceae having glossy palmate leaves with 3 to 7 leaflets and large doubly compound umbels of small greenish brown flowers

broadly : any of several other New Zealand trees or shrubs of the genus Nothopanax

2

dialectal : mountain laurel

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