baytree

The _laurus_ of the ancients was probably the baytree, and not what we now call laurel.

The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus Caius Cornelius Tacitus

He might have been a thorn in the brewery, among the vats, but he would have been a flourishing young baytree in the outer world of Baslehurst.

Rachel Ray, volume 1 1863

He might have been a thorn in the brewery, among the vats, but he would have been a flourishing young baytree in the outer world of Baslehurst.

Rachel Ray 1863

John’s business flourished like the green baytree: you never heard of it but it was putting forth a fresh shoot in a fresh direction.

The Way Home 2003

baytree ...we are an insignificant little blob off the coast of Europe...

The Guardian World News Damian Carrington 2010

3.2.25: Daphne, in groue, clad with bark of baytree:

"Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other" 1557