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Perennial honesty

(Redirected from Lunaria rediviva)
Lunaria rediviva
Lunaria rediviva
Scientific classification
:Plantae
Magnoliophyta
:Magnoliopsida
:Capparales
:Brassicaceae
:Lunaria
rediviva
Binomial name
Lunaria rediviva

Perennial Honesty, (Lunaria rediviva) is a tall (height about 1 m), hairy-stemmed perennial found throughout Europe in damp woods, and on lime. It has large, pointed oval leaves with marked serrations. The common name "Honesty" arose in the sixteenth century, and it may be due to the translucent seed-pods which are like flattened pea-pods and borne on the plant through winter.

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