Flower - Snowdrop, Galanthus nivallis - Dixon postcard c.1980s

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• Picture / Image:  Galanthus nivallis (Snowdrop) - photo by Cherrie Newman
• Publisher:  J Arthur Dixon (PFC 41721)
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Galanthus nivalis, the snowdrop or common snowdrop, is the best-known and most widespread of the 20 species in its genus, Galanthus. Snowdrops are among the first bulbs to bloom in spring and can form impressive carpets of white in areas where they are native or have been naturalised.

They should not be confused with snowflakes (Leucojum and Acis.)

The generic name Galanthus, from the Greek gala (milk) and anthos (flower), was given to the genus by Carl Linnaeus in 1735. He described Galanthus nivalis in his Species Plantarum published in 1753. The epithet ""nivalis"" means ""of the snow"", referring either to the snow-like flower or the plant's early flowering.^[1]

The common name snowdrop first appeared in the 1633 edition of John Gerard's Great Herbal (in the first edition (1597) he described it as the ""Timely flowring Bulbus violet""). The derivation of the name is uncertain, although it may have come from the German word Schneetropfen, which was a type of earring popular around that time.^[2] Other British traditional common names include ""February fairmaids"", ""dingle-dangle"", ""Candlemas bells"", ""Mary's tapers""^[3] and, in parts of Yorkshire,""snow piercers"" (like the French name perce-neige).^[4]

Galanthus nivalis is widely grown in gardens, particularly in northern Europe, and is widely naturalised in woodlands in the regions where it is grown. It is, however, native to a large area of Europe, from Spain in the west, eastwards to the Ukraine. It is found in Albania, Armenia, Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and the former Yugoslavia.

Although often thought of as a British native wild flower, or to have been brought to the British Isles by the Romans, it is now thought that it was probably introduced much later, perhaps around the early sixteenth century.^[5]

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