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n. - Small European deciduous shrub with fragrant lilac-colored flowers followed by red berries on highly toxic twigs.

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  • When applied to the skin, it blisters like mezereon.
  • The little gardens were bright with daffodils, mezereon, and flowering currant.
  • I visited every little cave delved in the ridges of rock, and gathered large sprigs of the mezereon and rhododendron in full bloom, which, with a surprising variety of...
  • Mr. Ferber speaks of the pleasure he received in observing in the buds of Hepatica and pedicularis hirsuta yet lying hid in the earth, and in the gems of the shrub daphne...
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