Buckthorns

You may have seen notices about people working to remove buckthorns - North Park Village Nature Center does this regularly. ❋ Unknown (2009)

American buckthorns are: _Rhamnus purshiana_ or _Cascara sagrada_, of the ❋ Various (N/A)

Among the pines grew many oaks, buckthorns, tall manzañitas and the like. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

Up in the street it has the effect of being done consciously; the buckthorns lean to each other and the drift to them, the little birds run in and out of their appointed ways with the greatest cheerfulness. ❋ Unknown (1903)

Giant thistles, growing to the height of a man on horseback, frequently spread over regions once rich and fruitful, as they do on the pampas of South America; and many of the most interesting historic spats and ruins are rendered almost inaccessible by thickets of fiercely-armed buckthorns. ❋ Unknown (1884)

The oaks and the buckthorns were (gradually) thinned, ❋ James Legge (1856)

The young chef himself is given to plucking tart sea buckthorns from the beach, and pulling up ramps from the forest floor outside of Copenhagen. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Jacob]: dude, what's Josh doing over there with that chick? [Ryan]: he's totally got her [pinned down] with the buckthorn move. ❋ Trynnosaurus Rex (2010)