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UK Nature > Wild Flowers > White Wild Flowers > Bryonia alba
Scientific Name: Bryonia alba Common Name: White Briony Bryonia alba, commonly known as White Briony, is a vigorous vine in the family Cucurbitaceae (squashes and melons) from Europe and Northern Iran. A herbaceous, perennial vine, white bryony is monoecious (having both the male and female reproductive organs in the same individual) but diclinous (having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers) with a tuberous yellow root. Greenish-white flowers are 1cm across. Long curling tendrils, flowers, and fruit all stem from axils of palmately lobed leaves. The fruit is a 1.5cm berry which blackens as it ripens. Common throughout the UK in hedgerows and uncultivated land. |
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