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wind-borne seed
aromatic when brushed or crushed
This is a surprisingly hardy plant
a feature rare among camellias
a clump-forming
Chelone lyonii 'Hot Lips' Check with George wind-borne seedThe turtlehead is named twice over for things that go quiet. The genus Chelone is the Greek word for tortoise, after a nymph who mocked the marriage of Zeus and Hera and was turned, for her insolence, into a creature that carries her house and holds her tongue; one look at the flower, a hinged, swollen, pink and gaping thing that seems about to either speak or bite, and you see why the name stuck. The species honors John Lyon, the Scottish plant
