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On Apr 27, 6:36 pm, Chris Hogg wrote:

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......

I don't remember her and I did classics!!!!! Aah bless, what a lovely
story.

Aren't Daphneas some kind of fly or water nymph? ;-)

Daphnia - a type of freshwater crustacean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphnia

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