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hyacinth

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Also known as Hyacinthus

Hyacinthus is a genus of bulbous herbs and spring-blooming perennials. They are fragrant flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae and are commonly called hyacinths (). The genus is native predominantly to the Eastern Mediterranean region from the south of Turkey to the Palestine region, although naturalized more widely.

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Hyacinthus is a taxon name associated with the family Hyacinthaceae. The Unicode character for this subject is 🪻. It is referenced by 174 other encyclopedia articles.

Cyrtorchis crassifolia is a species in the family Orchidaceae. Its flowers are white, fading to cream, and have a sweedy scent of hyacinths. This species is native to Angola, Burundi, DR Congo, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

A PubMed query for hyacinth returns a count of 1258.

Synthesized by Vinony from 12 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Plants of the World, PubMed, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Species

FamilyOrchidaceae
Native toAngola, Burundi, DR Congo, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Flower: Flowers white, fading to cream, sweedy scented of hyacinths

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Hyacinthus is a genus of bulbous herbs and spring-blooming perennials. They are fragrant flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae and are commonly called hyacinths (). The genus is native predominantly to the Eastern Mediterranean region from the south of Turkey to the Palestine region, although naturalized more widely.

The name comes from Greek mythology: Hyacinth was killed by Zephyrus, the god of the west wind, jealous of his love for Apollo. He then transformed the drops of Hyacinth's blood into flowers.

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