Hellebore

Helleborus niger L.Family: Ranunculaceae Juss.EN: Christmas Rose, Black Hellebore, DE: Christrose, Gewhnliche Chrostrose, Schwarze Nieswurz, Gewhnliche Schneerose Slo.: rni telohDat.: March 5. 2021Lat.: 46.36101 Long.: 13.70068 (WGS84)Code: Bot_1350/2021_DSC06479Habitat: mixed wood, predominantly Fagus sylvatica, some Ostrya carpinifolia, Picea abies; slightly inclined mountain slope, southeast aspect; calcareous, skeletal, colluvial ground; in shade; elevation 635 m (2.085 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil.Place: Lower Trenta valley, between villages Soa and Trenta, right bank of river Soa, near Trenta 2b cottage; East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC Comment: (relates to the Flickr album 'Helleborus niger'):We have an 'explosion' of these beautiful flowers these days (beginning of March 2021). Christmas roses are flowering by thousands all around the beech forests as well as on open places, but there only near the wood edge. Christmas rose has been well known already by the ancient Romans and Greeks. Not only from esthetic point of view but also as a broadly used medicinal plant and as a poisonous plant misused too. It is one of the oldest cultivated plants. Hundreds of cultivars are known. They are highly esteemed in Japan where there exist several societies, published bulletins, exhibitions and contests dedicated to this species and taking place every year. Particularly esteemed fashionable forms reach enormous prices. A big business! In Trenta valley they are free. All are similar, yet no two of them are exactly the same.Protected according to: Uredba o zavarovanih prostoiveih rastlinskih vrstah, poglavje A, Uradni list RS, t. 46/2004 (Regulation of protected wild plants, chapter A, Official Gazette of Republic Slovenia, no. 46/2004), (2004).

2008.11.29: Austria, Lower Austria, district Wiener Neustadt Land, 900 m AMSL, mixed forest (broadleaf and coniferous trees), Schneeberg.Flowering typically from february till april (while or after snow is melting) but occasionally already in november or december like this one here: the buds developped while there wasn't snow yet, snow only fell when the buds were about to open.Quite common in the alps.German name: Schneerose (AT), Christrose (DE, CH).ID: Fischer, Exkursionsflora 3rd

Helleborus nigerDate: March 07. 2011I can't stop to take pictures of this plant! Zilions of them these days!

Helleborus niger L.Family: Ranunculaceae Juss.EN: Christmas Rose, Black Hellebore, DE: Christrose, Gewhnliche Christrose, Schwarze Nieswurz, Gewhnliche Schneerose Slo.: rni telohDat.: March 5. 2021Lat.: 46.36101 Long.: 13.70068 (WGS84)Code: Bot_1350/2021_DSC06479Habitat: mixed wood, predominantly Fagus sylvatica, some Ostrya carpinifolia, Picea abies; slightly inclined mountain slope, southeast aspect; calcareous, skeletal, colluvial ground; in shade; elevation 635 m (2.085 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil.Place: Lower Trenta valley, between villages Soa and Trenta, right bank of river Soa, near Trenta 2b cottage; East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC Comment: (relates to the Flickr album 'Helleborus niger'):We have an 'explosion' of these beautiful flowers these days (beginning of March 2021). Christmas roses are flowering by thousands all around the beech forests as well as on open places, but there only near the wood edge. Christmas rose has been well known already by the ancient Romans and Greeks. Not only from esthetic point of view but also as a broadly used medicinal plant and as a poisonous plant misused too. It is one of the oldest cultivated plants. Hundreds of cultivars are known. They are highly esteemed in Japan where there exist several societies, published bulletins, exhibitions and contests dedicated to this species and taking place every year. Particularly esteemed fashionable forms reach enormous prices. A big business! In Trenta valley they are free. All are similar, yet no two of them are exactly the same.Protected according to: Uredba o zavarovanih prostoiveih rastlinskih vrstah, poglavje A, Uradni list RS, t. 46/2004 (Regulation of protected wild plants, chapter A, Official Gazette of Republic Slovenia, no. 46/2004), (2004).

Piovene Rocchette, Veneto, Italy

2010.04.09 Austria, Lower Austria, district Neunkirchen (1250 m AMSL).Here, at this time of year and at this height, there was still plenty of snow to be found - patches beginning at approx. 1100 metres altitude, and a closed blanket of snow approx. at and above 1300 metres.While flowering season already was reaching its end down in the valley it only began up there - and some leaves of H. niger still were mostly (or completely) covered by snow and thus hadn't even begun flowering.German name: Schneerose

Helleborus niger L.Family: Ranunculaceae Juss.EN: Christmas Rose, Black Hellebore, DE: Christrose, Gewhnliche Chrstrose, Schwarze Nieswurz, Gewhnliche Schneerose Slo.: rni telohDat.: March 5. 2021Lat.: 46.36101 Long.: 13.70068 (WGS84)Code: Bot_1350/2021_DSC06479Habitat: mixed wood, predominantly Fagus sylvatica, some Ostrya carpinifolia, Picea abies; slightly inclined mountain slope, southeast aspect; calcareous, skeletal, colluvial ground; in shade; elevation 635 m (2.085 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil.Place: Lower Trenta valley, between villages Soa and Trenta, right bank of river Soa, near Trenta 2b cottage; East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC Comment: (relates to the Flickr album 'Helleborus niger'):We have an 'explosion' of these beautiful flowers these days (beginning of March 2021). Christmas roses are flowering by thousands all around the beech forests as well as on open places, but there only near the wood edge. Christmas rose has been well known already by the ancient Romans and Greeks. Not only from esthetic point of view but also as a broadly used medicinal plant and as a poisonous plant misused too. It is one of the oldest cultivated plants. Hundreds of cultivars are known. They are highly esteemed in Japan where there exist several societies, published bulletins, exhibitions and contests dedicated to this species and taking place every year. Particularly esteemed fashionable forms reach enormous prices. A big business! In Trenta valley they are free. All are similar, yet no two of them are exactly the same.Protected according to: Uredba o zavarovanih prostoiveih rastlinskih vrstah, poglavje A, Uradni list RS, t. 46/2004 (Regulation of protected wild plants, chapter A, Official Gazette of Republic Slovenia, no. 46/2004), (2004).

2010.04.25 Austria, Lower Austria, district Lilienfeld (near Fensterbach on dry lands, Halbachtal, 530 m AMSL).The snow rose flowers do not wither in the classical sense, rather petals turn green - and stay till the seeds are ripe.Common in Northern Limestone Alps.German name: Schneerose

Helleborus nigerDate: March 07. 2011I can't stop to take pictures of this plant! Zilions of them these days!

Helleborus niger L.Family: Ranunculaceae Juss.EN: Christmas Rose, Black Hellebore, DE: Christrose, Gewhnliche Christrose, Schwarze Nieswurz, Gewhnliche Schneerose Slo.: rni telohDat.: March 5. 2021Lat.: 46.36101 Long.: 13.70068 (WGS84)Code: Bot_1350/2021_DSC06479Habitat: mixed wood, predominantly Fagus sylvatica, some Ostrya carpinifolia, Picea abies; slightly inclined mountain slope, southeast aspect; calcareous, skeletal, colluvial ground; in shade; elevation 635 m (2.085 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil.Place: Lower Trenta valley, between villages Soa and Trenta, right bank of river Soa, near Trenta 2b cottage; East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC Comment: (relates to the Flickr album 'Helleborus niger'):We have an 'explosion' of these beautiful flowers these days (beginning of March 2021). Christmas roses are flowering by thousands all around the beech forests as well as on open places, but there only near the wood edge. Christmas rose has been well known already by the ancient Romans and Greeks. Not only from esthetic point of view but also as a broadly used medicinal plant and as a poisonous plant misused too. It is one of the oldest cultivated plants. Hundreds of cultivars are known. They are highly esteemed in Japan where there exist several societies, published bulletins, exhibitions and contests dedicated to this species and taking place every year. Particularly esteemed fashionable forms reach enormous prices. A big business! In Trenta valley they are free. All are similar, yet no two of them are exactly the same.Protected according to: Uredba o zavarovanih prostoiveih rastlinskih vrstah, poglavje A, Uradni list RS, t. 46/2004 (Regulation of protected wild plants, chapter A, Official Gazette of Republic Slovenia, no. 46/2004), (2004).

Helleborus nigerDate: March 07. 2011I can't stop to take pictures of this plant! Zilions of them these days!

Sallent de Gllego. El Pirineo: Aragn (Espaa)Familia: RANUNCULACEAEAl igual que Helleborus foetidus, es una planta muy txica. Distribucin: Endmica del W de Europa. En la Pennsula Ibrica ocupa los sistemas montaosos del tercio N (Pirineos, Cordillera Cantbrica, Sistema Ibrico septentrional y N de la Cordillera Costera Catalana). En Aragn se presenta en los montes del Alto Pirineo, descendiendo a algunos del Prepirineo como la Sierra de Orba, Cancis, Pea Montaesa y Turbn.Hbitat: Propia de bosques hmedos (abetales, hayedos, pinares), setos y orlas forestales, pasando tambin a pastos pedregosos ms o menos innivados.Preferencia edfica: Basfila. Basfila Calccola. Preferentemente calccola, aunque puede aparecer tambin sobre sustratos silceos.Rango altitudinal:( 830 ) 1000- 2000 ( 2300 ) m Floracin: ( Enero ) Febrero - Abril ( Mayo )Forma Biolgica: Gefito rizomatosoExtractado del Atlas de la Flora de Aragn (Herbario de Jaca)