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Plant Habit: Vine
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Leaves: Deciduous
Fruit: Showy
Edible to birds
Other: Small green berries, maturing to red and each containing three to six large seeds that are grayish-yellow, mottled with black
Flower Color: Other: Greenish-white
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Spring
Underground structures: Tuber
Toxicity: Leaves are poisonous
Roots are poisonous
Fruit is poisonous
Other: All parts of the plant are highly toxic. Plant sap can cause severe skin irritation.
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Pollinators: Bees
Miscellaneous: Dioecious

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Common names
  • Red Bryony
  • White Bryony
  • English Mandrake
  • Ladies Seal
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Bryonia dioica
  • Synonym: Bryonia cretica subsp. dioica

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Location: Cambridge University Botanic Garden
Date: July
credit: Magnus Manske
Location: Gorsselse heide
Date: 2021-08-10
Location: Gorsselse heide
Date: 2021-08-10
Location: Gorsselse heide
Date: 2021-08-10
Location: Cambridge University Botanic Garden
Date: July
credit: Magnus Manske
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2011-05-09
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2010-07-23
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2010-07-29
Self-set

Photo by Leo Michels

Photo by Leo Michels

Photo by Leo Michels

photo credit: H. Zell
Location: Cambridge University Botanic Garden
Date: July
credit: Magnus Manske

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