Edelweiss (disambiguation)
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Edelweiss (German: Edelweiß) is a European mountain flower (Leontopodium alpinum). It may also refer to:
Plants
- (rarely), other flowers in the genus Leontopodium
- Anaphalis javanica or Javanese edelweiss, a plant species found on the mountains of Indonesia
- Edelweiss (grape), a table and white wine grape
- Rauschling Edelweiss, a wine grape also called Completer
- Edelweiss, an alternative name for the wine grape Chasselas
Music
- Edelweiss, a piano solo, Op. 31 by Gustav Lange
- "Edelweiss" (song), from the Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music
- "Es war ein Edelweiss", a 1941 World War II marching song by Herms Niel
- Edelweiß (album), a 1982 album from Joachim Witt
- Edelweiss (band), an Austrian band in the late 1980s early 1990s
Businesses
- Edelweiss (beer), a brewery and beer in Austria
- Edelweiss Air, a Swiss charter airline
- Edelweiss Capital, a financial services company based in Mumbai, India
- Edelweiss Lodge and Resort, an AFRC hotel complex in Germany run by the United States military
- Edelweiss Valley or Edelweiss, a ski resort in Quebec
- Edelweiss (magazine), published by Ringier in Switzerland
- Edelweiss, an online book publishers' catalogue by Above the Treeline
Transport
- Siren Edelweiss, a French glider produced by SIREN as the C30S Edelweiss
- Edelweiss (monoplane), a French light utility aircraft designed by Roland Duruble
- Edelweiss (train), an international express train in Europe
People
- Edelweiss Cheung (born 1985), Miss Hong Kong 2008
- Edelweis Rodriguez (1911–1962), Italian Olympic boxer
- Edelweiss (actress) (born 1977), a Russian-Bulgarian pornographic actress
Nazi related
- Operation Edelweiss, a German plan to capture the Caucasus and the oil fields of Baku in World War II
- Kampfgeschwader 51 "Edelweiss", World War II German Luftwaffe bomber group
- Edelweiss (anti-partisan unit), German anti-partisan unit organized on the Slovak territory during World War II
- Edelweiss Pirates, an anti-Nazi youth culture in Germany before, during, and after World War II
Games
- Edelweiss, an expansion module for the Panzer Grenadier series board games
- Edelweiss (visual novel), a 2008 Japanese visual novel developed by Overdrive
- Edelweiss, a tank prototype in the videogame Valkyria Chronicles
Other
- EDELWEISS, a European experiment searching for dark matter
- Edelweiss (Aosta Valley), a regional political party in Italy
- Edelweiss (skyscraper), a building in Moscow
See also
- Eidelweiss, New Hampshire, village district
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