laurel Quintessensensual We are told that Apollo claimed the laurel tree as his special one because Daphne, whom he was pursuing without success because she was constant in rejecting him, turned into one. We are also told that the laurel tree is related to rhododendron and azalea, all being in the same taxonomic family but laurel being in a genus different from that of the other two. The lesson being that everything in blather is connected with everything else. 991218 ... troy ...even if it's in a genus completely different than the rest. 000106 what's it to you? who go blather from