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Answer for the clue "Black hellebore ", 14 letters:
christmas rose

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Christmas rose refers to one of the following plants: Helleborus spp., especially Helleborus niger Hydrangea macrophylla , see Hydrangea

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Christmas \Christ"mas\, n. [Christ + mass.] An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality. ...

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Helleborus, more commonly called Christmas rose, was reputed to have the power to cure madness.

The Black Hellebore - once known as Melampode - is a perennial, low-growing plant, with dark, shining, smooth leaves and flower-stalks rising directly from the root, its pure white blossoms appearing in the depth of winter and thereby earning for it the favourite name of Christmas Rose.