Viola Odorata - in Culture

In Culture

This may be the species mentioned in Shakespeare's famous lines:-

"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine"

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