red bryony
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Bryonia dioica - White or Red Bryony (formerly sometimes included in B. cretica)

Bryonia dioica, known by the common names red bryony and white bryony, is a perennial climbing vine indigenous to Central and Southern Europe.

The caterpillars feed on Red Bryony (Bryonia dioica) and probably also Squirting Cucumber (Ecballium elaterium).

He would make her a necklace of red bryony berries, that would be quite as pretty as the white berries that she wore on her dress, and when she was tired of them, she could throw them away, and he would find her others.

White bryony is native to Europe and Northern Iran.

Control of white bryony usually involves manual pulling and very frequent removal of new growth; diligence being the key to success.

The only English species, B. dioica (White Bryony), grows in hedgerows as far north as Yorkshire.

Bryonia dioica, known by the common names red bryony and white bryony, is a perennial climbing vine indigenous to Central and Southern Europe.

Bryonia alba, white bryony, is a vigorous vine in the family Cucurbitaceae (squashes and melons) from Europe and Northern Iran.

An herbaceous, perennial vine of the cucumber family, white bryony is monoecious but diclinous (separate male and female flowers found on the same plant) with a tuberous yellow root.

Purples can also be derived from lichens, and from the berries of White Bryony from the northern Rocky Mountain states and mulberry (morus nigra) (with an acid mordant).

Other common names include English mandrake, kudzu of the Northwest, and devil's turnip.

Bryoamaride is a chemical compound isolated from certain plants, notably Bryonia dioica.

The caterpillars feed on Red Bryony (Bryonia dioica) and probably also Squirting Cucumber (Ecballium elaterium).