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cascade everlasting

cascade everlasting

9.9
A small shrub with white woolly leaves and long sprays of fragrant flowers used for drying
  • noun
  • Australian
translation icon : cascabel eterno
  • The cascade everlasting looks stunning in dried flower arrangements that last for months.

Examples

  • Gardeners often grow cascade everlasting for its fragrant, woolly blooms and attractive foliage.

  • I saw a beautiful cascade everlasting in the botanical garden's Mediterranean section.

  • The cascade everlasting blooms beautifully in the summer.

  • I love the scent of cascade everlastings in my garden.

  • Gardeners often grow cascade everlasting for its fragrant, woolly blooms and attractive foliage.

  • The cascade everlasting looks stunning in dried flower arrangements that last for months.

  • I saw a beautiful cascade everlasting in the botanical garden's Mediterranean section.

Synonyms

everlasting
vscascade everlasting
3 8.3

A flower that keeps its shape and color when dried

is a single shrub species rather than the whole plant group
Ozothamnus secundiflorus
vscascade everlasting
  • Specialized
9.9

A small bush with woolly white leaves and long sprays of fragrant flowers that dry well

is the same shrub but listed under a different botanical name
Helichrysum secundiflorum
vscascade everlasting
  • Specialized
9.9

A small bush with soft white leaves and fragrant yellow flowers that people use in dried flower arrangements

is the same plant but called by an alternate botanical label
everlasting flower
vscascade everlasting
5.8

A flower that keeps its shape and color after drying for decoration

is about the entire shrub rather than just the dried flower quality

Surface Forms

cascade everlasting singular
cascade everlastings plural

Morphology

cascade + everlasting

The compound pairs 'cascade' (suggesting a trailing or flowing form) with 'everlasting' (a known dried-flower/plant), so a B1 learner who knows both words would likely infer this refers to a kind of everlasting plant with a cascading habit. However, the detailed botanical traits and specific taxonomic information (white woolly branches, genus Helichrysum) are specialized and not predictable from the constituents alone, so the expression is only partially transparent.

Etymology

Cascade everlasting gets its name from the long sprays of small, woolly flowers that hang like a cascade or 'waterfall', and from the way the blooms keep their shape and scent when dried, so they seem everlasting. That's why gardeners use the plant for 'dried flowers' that 'last a long time'.