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By Marie Iannotti, About.com Guide to Gardening

The Christmas Rose is a Rose is a Rose - or is it?

Friday January 20, 2006
The Christmas Rose is actually a buttercup. Hellebore niger, known as the Christmas Rose, also has the frustrating tendency of not blooming until Easter - making it all the more confusing to tell it apart from the Lenten Rose, Hellebore orientalis.

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