錦木

Literally, “brocade tree”, 錦(にしき) (nishiki, “brocade”) + 木(き) (ki, “tree”). The ki changes to gi as an instance of rendaku (連(れん)濁(だく)).

• IPA^(key): [ɲ̟iɕikʲiɡʲi]

錦(にしき)木(ぎ) or 錦木(ニシキギ) • (nishikigi) 

1. burning bush (Euonymus alatus)

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary).

• 八坂書房(やさかしょぼう) (Yasaka shobō, Yasaka Bookstore), editor (2001), 日本植物方言集成(にほんしょくぶつほうげんしゅうせい) (Nihon shokubutsu hōgen shūsei) [Compilation of dialectical plant names of Japan] (in Japanese)