Asphodel Sentence Examples

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  • The plants generally have a rhizome bearing radical leaves, as in asphodel, rarely a stem with a tuft of leaves as in Aloe, very rarely a tuber (Eriospermum) or bulb (Bowiea).

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  • As a chthonian divinity she is accompanied by a snake; the myrtle, asphodel and narcissus (which Persephone was gathering when carried off by Hades) also are sacred to her.

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  • Asphodelus (asphodel) is a Mediterranean genus; Simethis, a slender herb with grassy radical leaves, is a native of west and southern Europe extending into south Ireland.

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  • In Greek legend the asphodel is the most famous of the plants connected with the dead and the underworld.

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  • The asphodel was also supposed to be a remedy for poisonous snake-bites and a specific against sorcery; it was fatal to mice, but preserved pigs from disease.

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  • The English word "daffodil" is a perversion of "asphodel," formerly written "affodil."

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  • The non-nomads of these Libyan tribes dwelt in huts made of stakes supporting plaited mats of rush or asphodel.

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  • White bog cotton and yellow bog asphodel add beauty throughout the summer.

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  • The bogs support unusual plants species such as the insectivorous sundews and pale butterwort, the showy bog asphodel and early marsh orchid.

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  • In July, bog asphodel carpets the ground in places.

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  • Local plants include common heather, bell heather, cross-leaved heath, bog asphodel, sundews and marsh gentian.

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  • East and south Ben Vrackie has many plants concentrated round one fairly small crag - purple oxytropis, Alpine milk vetch and scottish asphodel.

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  • Less common specialities of these boggy areas include bog pimpernel, bog asphodel, round-leaved sundew and pale butterwort.

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  • Bog asphodel and the round and long-leaved sundews appear.

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  • A. creticus, the Cretan Asphodel, has yellow flowers, and is an easily cultivated border plant.

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  • Turkeys Beard (Xerophyllum) - X. asphodeloides is a beautiful tuberous-rooted plant with the aspect of an Asphodel, forming a spreading tuft of grassy leaves, its tall flowerstem terminated by a raceme of numerous white blossoms.

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