Fields of Asphodel-Why

Asphodel is a spring-flowering perennial with gray-green leaves. It was sacred to Hades, with asphodel planted around tombs. In mythology, they appear in the Fields of Asphodel. The ghostly gray plant was believed to cover the fields in the land of the dead. It was also regarded as the food of the dead.

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