Deep in the shade by the mountain streams

or the high mountain hidden gullies

Black stems and deep glossy green leaves,

with spring rains we open our flowers,

by mid-winter our bell-shaped fruit are ripe.

We are as old as the mountains,

the last of the first flowering plants.

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