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Helleborus niger |
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| | Flowers fade to a dusky rose |
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| Common name |
Christmas rose |
| Family |
ranunculaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial |
| Flowers |
white |
| Size |
1 ft |
| Light |
full sun- part shade |
| Seed ripens | late June |
White flowers in early spring, often when snow still covers the ground. Deep forest-green heavy textured evergreen foliage with a smooth surface. We grew this from seed collected in summer '01. Germination occurred the following winter, and a few plants had a flower or two by spring '03. The plants are still small a year later, when the photos on this page were taken. In late March, the flowers are bright white - by mid-April, they have taken on a rosier shade.
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| | March 2005: most abundant display yet |
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| | The buds are pushing through in mid-January... |
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| | ...and blooming at the tail end of winter, with flowers obviously a bit battered by the long winter's wait |
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| | Even rosier in April 2007 |
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We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston. One or more images of this plant are included in my stock photo catalog About my plant portraits
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