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Of purple with a rose tinge.

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Usage examples (6)
  • -- This is a fine border hardy perennial, producing long racemes of rosy-purple flowers in June or July.
  • The hybrids are a very striking race, invaluable for greenhouse and conservatory decoration, producing a continuous succession of large trumpet-shaped flowers, embracing...
  • Many of the species of Hellebore are known to produce flowers varying more or less in colour; and we also know that an individual blossom, during the long period in which the...
  • The evening was perfectly calm and cloudless, save in the west, where an agglomeration of delicate rosy-purple streaks and patches of vapour lay softly upon a clear...
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