Helleborus niger is commonly called the Christmas Rose due to an old legend that a young girl who had no gift to give the ‘Medicinal Plants’ by Bentley & Trimen the anatomical museum at King’s between it sprouted in the snow from the tears of 1866 and 1867. ‘Medicinal plants’ soon became associations with King’s College London. the standard work in its area. Professor of Botany at King’s in 1859 and Christ child in Bethlehem. This illustration
