white helleborine
noun
(More fully large white helleborine), an orchid with creamy-white flowers, Cephalanthera damasonium, found chiefly in beech woods on chalky soil from Britain to Asia Minor, and southward to North Africa.
Origin
Mid 17th century; earliest use found in John Rea (d. 1681), nursery gardener.
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