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What does hellebore mean?

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  1. Any of the common garden flowering plants of the genus Helleborus, in family Ranunculaceae, having supposed medicinal properties.
  2. A toxic extract of certain false hellebores (Veratrum album or Veratrum viride), formerly used as a pesticide.
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The three leaved hellebore, helleborus trifolius, for dyeing wood yellow, is used in Canada.
Be very cautious about growing poisonous plants, like castor bean or hellebore, in readily accessible areas.
Mayapple, bloodroot, pokeweed, nightshade and hellebore are other alkaloidal plants.
De Abano in the fourteenth century included mercury, copper, lapis lazuli, arsenic sublimate, litharge, nux vomica, laurel berries, and hellebore in his De Remedis Venenorum.
Nonephemerals that bloom during the summer or fall are Canada lily, false hellebore, and species of aster, goldenrod, and sunflower.
This seems to me like it would be a difficult color range to achieve, considering the amount of blue in most hellebore flowers.

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