Word: syringa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whether they came to celebrate the purple and white blossoms by comparing the number of petals of various Syringa species or by rolling down hills covered with dandelions, the roughly 20,000 people who packed Harvard's botanical museum/lab all came to smell the flowers...
...bearded propagator, dressed for the occasion in a lilac purple T-shirt emblazoned with a Harvard shield where the word "Veritas" was replaced with "Syringa," said that most of the Arboretum's lilac plants are "cultivars,"--bred for their various horticultural merits...
Although there are numerous varieties, Alexander said that lilacs come from two main species: Syringa Vulgaris, a variety which originates in Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Romania, and Syringa Oblata which has its roots in the Korean Peninsula...