I'm not sure what the 6 things in the middle of the flower are. I looked it up and apparently these flowers are poisonous.
Alpes Vaudoises - Switzerland. 1200 m, 22 feb. 2007
Helleborus foetidus - Stinkend nieskruid | Stinking hellebore | Hellébore fétide | Stinkende Nieswurz
Talking about Helleborus, we always tend to think about Helleborus niger, the Christmas Rose, or about those dark-red coloured Helleborus orientalis.
But, in the Ardens, in the Southern part of Belgium, you can find two native members of the genus Helleborus: there is the rather common Stinking Hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), and the much rarer Green Hellebore (Helleborus viridis).
In contrast with the well-known garden-varieties of H. niger and H. orientalis, our native Hellebores have less obvious green flowers.
