 In one version of the story, Aphrodite injured herself on a thorn from a rose bush and the rose, which had previously been white, was stained red by her blood.In other version an anemone flower grew on the spot where Adonis died, and a red rose where Aphrodite's tears fell.The third century BC poet Euphorion of Chalcis remarked in his "Hyacinth" that "Only Cocytus washed the wounds of Adonis".