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
August 2008