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Botanical details
- Family
- Melanthiaceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Genus
Paris
- Genus description
A genus of 24 species of flowering herbaceous plants mainly found in woodland areas of Asia and Europe. They produce spider-like flowers with long, thread-like petals which sit in the centre of a terminal whorl of green foliage
- Name status
Accepted
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