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Hyacinthus

Hyacinthus orientalis ( Common Hyacinth , Garden Hyacinth or Dutch Hyacinth ), is a perennial flowering plant native to southwestern Asia, in southern and central Turkey, northwestern Syria and Lebanon.

It is a bulb plant, with a 3-7 cm diameter bulb. The leaves are strap-shaped, 15-35 cm long and 1-3 cm broad, with a soft, succulent texture, and produced in a basal whorl. The flowering stem grows to 20-35 cm (rarely to 45 cm) tall, bearing a spike of 2-50 fragrant purple flowers 2-3.5 cm long with a tubular, six-lobed perianth.

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Hyacinthus

Hyacinthus. In Greek mythology, a young man of great beauty who attracted the love of Apollo. The god killed him accidentally in discus throwing, and from his blood grew the flower ...

Hyacinthus definition of Hyacinthus in the Free Online Encyclopedia.

A Greek vegetation divinity who was loved by both Apollo and Zephyrus. He returned the love of Apollo, but not of Zephyrus. When he and Apollo were throwing the discus together ...

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Apollo was passionately fond of a youth named Hyacinthus. He accompanied him in his sports, carried the nets when he went fishing, led the dogs when he went to hunt, followed him in his excursions in the mountains, and neglected for him his lyre and his arrows.

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