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unusual facts about Hellebore


Briddlesford Nature Reserve

Other locally distributed ancient woodland specialities include green hellebore (Helleborus viridis), greater butterfly orchid (Platanthera chlorantha) and thin spiked wood sedge (Carex strigosa).


Bear Corn

Veratrum viride also known as Indian Poke, Indian Hellebore, False Hellebore, Green False Hellebore

First Sacred War

Polyaenus also gave credit for the strategy not to Kleisthenes but to General Eurylochus, who he claimed advised his allies to gather a large amount of hellebore from Anticyra, where it was abundant.

H. niger

Helleborus niger, the Christmas rose or black hellebore, a plant species

Helleborus foetidus

Yeasts colonise the nectaries of stinking hellebore and their presence has been found to raise the temperature of the flower, which may aid in attracting pollinators to the flower by increasing the evaporation of volatile organic compounds.

V. nigrum

Veratrum nigrum, the black hellebore, a medicinal and poisonous plant species native to Asia and Europe

Veratrum album

In antiquity, an effective emetic based on white hellebore and a bitter oval seed (which Hahneman believed was the seed of Erigeron or Senecio) was mixed by the physicians of Antikyra, a city of Phokis in Greece.


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