NOUN
- orchid of Mediterranean and Asia having a lax spike of bright rose-pink flowers
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- The first two pictures are marsh helleborines and the last one is a green flowered helleborine which had been discovered the day before our visit.
- On the exposed limestone, crinkly yellow rock-rose and dark red helleborine; also hart's-tongue fern, rigid buckler-fern, hard shield-fern. Times, Sunday Times
- The spectacular red helleborine orchid is distributed from Iran throughout the Mediterranean region and up to western Europe, reaching southern Scandinavia.
- 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.
- This site is particularly important for red helleborines, one of four helleborines recorded here, and for rare snails.
