NOUN
- any of various orchids of the genus Epipactis
- any of several small temperate and tropical orchids having mottled or striped leaves and spikes of small yellowish-white flowers in a twisted raceme
- any of several orchids of the genus Cephalanthera
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- Sedges, helleborine and marsh orchids and two threatened species of dandelion are among the plants included. Times, Sunday Times
- There is one other orchid; the exotic broad-leaved helleborine Epipactis helleborine. Marielle Anzelone: Nature in New York City
- This site is particularly important for red helleborines, one of four helleborines recorded here, and for rare snails.
- Helleborine, who could be the better long-term prospect, is 8-1, but must have the French Guineas as an alternative. Talking Horses
- When I gardened in northern Maine, helleborine came up in the flower beds too.
- There has been a small colony of white helleborines growing at the top of the science car park for at least two years now.
- Like many orchids, the red helleborine is capable of growing and flowering in quite deep shade and, if conditions become too adverse, it is able to lead a subterranean existence for many years until conditions become more favourable.
- And at the weekend he and a group of seven volunteers carefully dug up 73 rare broad-leaved helleborines and took them by wheelbarrow to their new home where they were replanted.
- Several kinds of orchid grow here, with helleborines under the shade of trees.
- We then went to the helleborine site, which is in the verge of a farm lane which runs along a narrow strip of woodland - I had always thought the wood rather unexciting and probably not of ‘ancient’ origin, and was absolutely astonished to find these helleborines.
