Christmas plants and animals: 12 festive species: Quick Facts

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Christmas fern (family: Dryopteridaceae)

Christmas box (family: Buxaceae)

A forest floor covered with blooming black hellebore (Helleborus niger) plants, showing clusters of white flowers and green leaves among fallen brown leaves and trees.

Christmas cactus (family: Cactaceae)

Christmas tree worm (family: Serpulidae)

Christmas beetle (family: Scarabaeidae)

Christmas Island red crab (family: Gecarcinidae)

Christmas wrasse (family: Labridae)

Christmas Island imperial pigeon (family: Columbidae)

Christmas boobook (family: Strigidae)

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