leatherwood

Noun

• deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers

• shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  moosewood , moose-wood , wicopy , ropebark , Dirca palustris , cyrilla , white titi , Cyrilla racemiflora