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White Bryony, Bryonia dioica Family: Cucurbitaceae
White Bryony
Bryonia dioica


Flowering: May-September. Perennial. Native in GB and Channel Islands

Grows in well-drained calcareous soils on roadsides, at wood edges, among scrub and on wasteground.

A hairy scrambling or climbing plant with palmate, 5-lobed leaves and dioecious whitish flowers with green veins. Female flowers are in clusters, male flowers in drooping racemes on separate plants. Grows from a large tuberous root-stock, is unpalatable to rabbits and the berries are poisonous

Similar: Black Bryony, Tamus communis has shiny, heart-shaped leaves


White Bryony, Bryonia dioica     White Bryony, Bryonia dioica

White Bryony, Bryonia dioica
White Bryony, Bryonia dioica
August 2008

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