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Bryonia alba

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Propagation

S.

Common Names

• White Bryony
• Tetterberry
• Wild Hops
• Devil's Turnip
• Western Kudzu

Geographical Habitats

• Albania
• Austria
• Bulgaria
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Italy
• Kazakhstan
• Kirgizstan
• Poland
• Romania
• Russia
• Switzerland
• Turkey
• Ukraine
• Yugoslavia

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

• Jun-Jul

Fruiting Times

Perennial vine with to 46m, turnip-like tuber, with simple or bifid tendrils. 5-lobed leaves to 125mm x 125mm. 20mm white to pale green to white or yellowish flowers in axillary corymbs or monoecious racemes. Fruit a blackish 8mm berry.

Noxious weed. Will grow up to 150mm a day. Highly poisonous

Dried roots have been used medicinally. Young shoots edible.

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Bodkin
• Botanicus
• The Plant List 2
• www.oregon.gov