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Christmas-rose
Helleborus niger
Helleborus niger, commonly called Christmas rose or black hellebore, is an evergreen perennial flowering plant in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae. It is poisonous.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.383
Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.1463
Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.1462
The Flowering Garden: Winter
Crispijn van de Passe · 1614 · p.11
Living Images of Plants
Otto Brunfels · 1532 · p.40
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1484 · p.153
Latin Herbal
1484 · p.125
Herbarius
1485 · p.126
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.163
Herbal of Virtues
1499 · p.125
Living Images of Plants
Otto Brunfels · 1532 · p.37
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.307
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Helleborus niger in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 55841.