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Males typically call from leaves on shrubs and bromeliads several meters above the forest floor.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026

At Chiswick, staff were watering drooping camellias and lilacs, shrubs that normally thrive in sun.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Wooden baskets swinging behind them, the Flemings and Schifferles darted between trees, dug through patches of ivy and peered beneath shrubs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

The satellite images pick up the "fuel moisture content" in the landscape, which signals where there might be a large amount of fuel, such as dry leaves, grass, shrubs and bark.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

That tangle of shrubs there should be cut down to bring light to the path.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier




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