![]() ![]() The fruit is a small orange-red berry 5–7 mm (0.2–0.3 in) diameter that contains a few large whitish to brownish colored seeds that dry to a clear translucent round bead 1–3 mm (0.04–0.12 in) wide. The flowers have six white tepals (rarely pink), fused at the base to form a bell shape, 5–10 mm (0.2–0.4 in) diameter, and sweetly scented flowering is in late spring, in mild winters in the Northern Hemisphere it is in early March. The stems grow to 15–30 cm (6–12 in) tall, with one or two leaves 10–25 cm (4–10 in) long flowering stems have two leaves and a raceme of five to fifteen flowers on the stem apex. These grow in the spring into new leafy shoots that still remain connected to the other shoots under ground. New upright shoots are formed at the ends of stolons in summer, these upright dormant stems are often called pips. Convallaria majalis is an herbaceous perennial plant that often forms extensive colonies by spreading underground stems called rhizomes. ![]()
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