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Bryonia cretica ssp. dioica

Botanic Family

Cucurbitaceae

Author

(Jacquin) Tutin

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Albania
• Algeria
• Austria
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Czech Republic
• France
• Germany
• Great Britain
• Greece
• Hungary
• Italy
• Kazakhstan
• Libya
• Morocco
• Netherlands
• Portugal
• Slovakia
• Spain
• Switzerland
• Tadzhikistan
• Tunisia
• Uzbekistan
• Yugoslavia

Natural Habitats

• Hedgerows
• scrubland
• woodland.

Flowering Times

• May-Sep (Great Britain) Dec-Feb (New Zealand)

Fruiting Times

Perennial herbaceous tendril climber to 6m from tuber with simple tendrils. Palmately 5-lobed leaves to 150mm x 150mm. Tubular flowers in axillary cymes or dioecious racemes, 20mm white petals with green stripes. Red berry 8mm diameter.

Poisonous. Naturalised some places.

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• FOBI
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• NZPCN