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Helleborus
Genus Helleborus consists of approximately 20 species of herbaceous or evergreen perennial flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae.
Many hellebore species are poisonous.
Various species of this genus originated in Europe and Asia. The greatest concentration of species occurs in the Balkans.
Hellebore poisoning is rare, but it does occur.
Helleborus niger is commonly called the Christmas rose, due to an old legend that it sprouted in the snow from the tears of a young girl who had no gift to give the Christ child in Bethlehem.
In Greek mythology, Melampus of Pylos used hellebore to save the daughters of the king of Argos from a madness, induced by Dionysus, that caused them to run naked through the city, crying, weeping, and screaming...