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A shrub that out-flowers your entire personality every spring, then sulks all summer.
means A woody shrub (genus Rhododendron) with leathery evergreen leaves and showy clusters of bell- or funnel-shaped flowers, grown chiefly for its dramatic spring bloom.
from From Greek rhodon 'rose' plus dendron 'tree' — literally 'rose tree.' The Greeks and Romans actually used the name for the oleander, not the plant we mean today; botanists later borrowed the label and reassigned it to this genus, so the word has been quietly rehoused over the centuries even as it kept its pretty, rosy meaning intact.
- name origin
- Greek for rose tree, rosa plus dendron
- toxic talent
- leaves and nectar poisonous to humans and livestock
- mad honey
- bees make hallucinogenic honey from its nectar
- leaf trick
- curls and droops to thermometer-check cold weather