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What is bayberry used for?

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The waxy gray "berries" of the North American wild or cultivated bayberry shrubs (chiefly Myrica cerifera ) are used to make fragrant bayberry candles, scented soap, and sealing wax; bayberry is also called candleberry and wax myrtle.

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