In message , Chris Hogg
writes
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:33:39 +0100, K wrote:

" writes
On Apr 26, 8:46 pm, "Baldoni" wrote:
Does anyone know of any plants, shrubs etc. that are mentioned in the bible
or the gospel that are available in the UK for purchase ?

Was Daphne a Saint?

Greek mythology, wasn't she?

A nymph, chaste and beautiful, daughter of the river Peneius and
Ladon, a river god. Apollo tried to seduce her, but was rejected. He
then became more forceful, and she fled, but he caught her and she
cried out to Gaea for help. The earth opened beneath her and she was
swallowed up, and a laurel tree sprang up at the spot. Apollo made the
tree sacred to him.

So whether laurels or daphnes are wrongly named, I'll leave you to
decide......

To muddy the waters, the spurge laurel is a Daphne (never mind that the
other plants called laurel are a heterogenous lot).
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Stewart Robert Hinsley