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 Vacation Village and Campground
• Edelweiss Valley or Edelweiss, a ski resort in Quebec
• Edelweiss (magazine), published by Ringier in Switzerland

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 (pornographic 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", WWII German Luftwaffee 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