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Biblical Plants
In message , Sacha
writes On 27/4/07 21:13, in article .com, " wrote: 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 Garden Banter does not have permission to use my posts. Join uk.rec.gardening instead. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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