Helleborus

Japanese: Helleborus
Helleborus

...A perennial plant of the Ranunculaceae family native to Europe. It is named after the fact that it blooms in winter, from December to February. Although it is famous as a winter-flowering flower, it is not this species that is cultivated most often in Japan, but rather the spring-flowering Lenten rose H. orientalis Lam. (English name Lenten rose) (illustration) of the same genus, or a group of cultivars created by interspecific hybridization. All of them are evergreen perennial plants with a height of 20 to 40 cm, with short black rhizomes and palmate compound leaves that grow at the base, and the entire plant is hairless. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Helleborus" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…ヨーロッパ原産のキンポウゲ科の多年草。12~2月の冬季に開花をするのでこの名がある。冬咲きの草花として有名だが,日本で栽培の多いのは本種ではなく,同属で春咲きのレンテンローズH.orientalis Lam.(英名Lenten rose)(イラスト)や種間交配して作出された品種群であることが多い。いずれも草丈20~40cmの常緑多年草で,黒く短い根茎をもち,葉は根生する掌状複葉をつけ,全株無毛である。…

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