#AdventBotany Day7: ‘like a Shoshana among the thorns’ – by Robert Blackhall-Miles

By Robert Blackhall-Miles FLS Last year for advent botany I wrote about the Madonna lily (Lilium candidum) and its links to the Christmas story and the song of Solomon. This year, however, I propose another hypothesis as to the identity of the ‘Lily of the valley’ and the ‘Rose of Sharon’. Another set of leaves…

via #AdventBotany Day 7: ‘like a Shoshana among the thorns’ — Culham Research Group