Posted by : Muhammad Khalid
Wednesday, 11 June 2014
Helleborus is comprised of approximately 20 species of
herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae. The genus is
native to much of Europe, from western Great Britain, Spain and Portugal,
eastward across the Mediterranean region and central Europe into Romania and
Ukraine, and along the north coast of Turkey into the Caucasus. The greatest
concentration of species occurs in the Balkans. One atypical species (
H. thibetanus) comes from western
China; another atypical species (
H.
vesicarius) inhabits a small area on the border between Turkey and
Syria.
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