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Wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)

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teaberry

plant, Gaultheria procumbens

Also known as: Gaultheria procumbens, checkerberry, wintergreen

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Gaultheria

In Gaultheria: Major species
Wintergreen (G. procumbens), also called checkerberry or teaberry, is a creeping shrub with white bell-shaped flowers, spicy red fruits, and aromatic shiny leaves.
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wintergreen

In wintergreen
teaberry and checkerberry, has many short erect branches with short-stalked, thick, shining tooth-edged leaves in the upper part. Flowers hang singly from the leaf axils and have a pale pink, waxy-looking, urn-shaped corolla. The bright red berrylike fruits, sometimes called deerberries, consist of the much-enlarged…
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