1611 R. Cotgrave Meurte sauvage, the wild Mirtle tree, or Mirtle shrub.
1823 M. W. Shelley I. xii. 236 She looked up; and..perceived Castruccio, with one hand grasping a myrtle shrub, leaning from the summit of the precipice.
1885 J. E. Barlas ii. i. 37 Here will I hide me 'mid these myrtle shrubs.