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Mezereon

noun

Small European deciduous shrub with fragrant lilac-colored flowers followed by red berries on highly toxic twigs. Synonyms: Daphne mezereum, February daphne.

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... of the pleasure he received in observing in the buds of Hepatica and pedicularis hirsuta yet lying hid in the earth, and in the gems of the shrub daphne mezereon, and at the base of osmunda lunaria a perfect plant of the future year, discernable in all its parts a year before it comes forth, and in the seeds of nymphea nelumbo the leaves of the plant were seen so distinctly ...

— The Botanic Garden - A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: The Economy of Vegetation • Erasmus Darwin

... Better fruit is eaten in Scotland than in the most fertile and cultivated parts of your peninsula. As for flowers, there is a greater variety in the worst of our fields than in the best of your gardens. As for shrubs, I have rarely seen a lilac, a laburnum, a mezereon, in any of them, and yet they flourish before almost every cottage in our ...

— Flowers and Flower-Gardens • David Lester Richardson

Words linked to "Mezereon" : February daphne, daphne, Daphne mezereum, mezereum