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To: TigersEye
The pink plant is actually Helleborus x hybridus "Pink Lady", or one of the many pink/red hybrids.

The wild geranium has similar petaloid features, but the foliage is starkly different.

There are so many hybrids out now, as compared to when I started a 2nd career and new business in the Horticulture industry 25yrs ago, it's mind boggling.

The foliage on that pic you posted looks very similar to the Beltilla striatus, Hardy Chinese Orchid.

10 posted on 01/12/2014 3:26:40 AM PST by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: carriage_hill

“...Beltilla...”

Make that Bletilla.


14 posted on 01/12/2014 5:44:43 AM PST by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: carriage_hill
I don't know many horticulturals but I know a lot of wild plants because I got into herbal medicine about 25 years ago. Mostly wild plants of western North America. If the White Hellebore is like the Green Hellebore, and it probably is, they picked a good poison to give a man who was drinking. It will drop BP dramatically and it doesn't take much.

They had no need to ferment it or disguise its bitter taste either. A 1:10 dry plant tincture is so potent it is used by the drop to slow heart rate and lower BP in someone with a bounding pulse and high fever. Only someone with a lot of experience would even think of using it.

15 posted on 01/12/2014 12:24:28 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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