Bryony - Bryonia cretica - White bryony - Bríonía - Agúrkuætt. Eiturjurt - Dioecious. Ég safnaði þessum fræum til að senda áhugasömum blómavinum á Íslandi - og sá nokkrum sjálf í vor - þessi klifurjurt er einstaklega falleg þar sem hún vefur sér upp í trén - The male and female are different plants. The plant's berries are considered poisonous. White bryony fruit are extremely toxic, and eating the fruit may cause abortion. The thin-skinned, spherical, scarlet red, poisonous berries develop in the Fall.

Bryonies are occasionally grown in gardens, sometimes accidentally, sometimes deliberately so. Some species find use in herbal medicine. Generally however, these plants are poisonous, some highly so, and may be fatal if ingested. See more: [ Ссылка ]

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From the Greek bryo, to shoot or grow rapidly, a reference to its vigorous growing habit of sprouting each year from the tuber roots. Dioscorides however calls it ‘Bruonia Ampelos’. Bruonia is Greek for ‘to swell’ and ‘Ampelos’ means ‘vine’. It is possible that this refers to the exceptionally large roots which the plant forms. This hedgerow climber is such a strong laxative that, even in the 16th century, its unrestrained medicinal use was not recommended. Those men who bought bryony root, thinking it to be mandrake, may have been 'up all night' but not in the way they'd hoped. It contains a glycoside, variously called bryonin(e) or bryonidin, which is a dangerously strong purgative and an alkaloid called bryonicine. There is little reason for anyone to ingest any of the plant in modern times but its historic use as an alternative to mandrake must have had unexpected, but unrecorded, ill effects. See more: [ Ссылка ]

Database of Toxic Plants in the United States. See more: [ Ссылка ]

The flowers, which bloom in May, are small, greenish, and produced, generally three or four together, in small bunches springing from the axils of the leaves. Stamens and pistils are never found in the same flower, nor are the flowers which have them individually ever met with on the same plant in this species, whence the name dioica, signifying literally 'two dwellings.' The male flowers are in loose, stalked bunches, 3 to 8 flowers in a bunch, or cyme, the stamens having one-celled, yellow anthers. The fertile flowers, easily distinguished from the barren by the presence of an ovary beneath the calyx, are generally either stalkless (sessile) or with very short stalks - two to five together. The corollas in each case consist of five petals, cohering only at the base. The outer green calyx is widely bell-shaped and five-toothed. The berries, which hang about the bushes after the stem and leaves are withered, are almost the size of peas when ripe, a pale scarlet in colour. They are filled with juice of an unpleasant, foetid odour and contain three to six large seeds, greyish-yellow, mottled with black, and are unwholesome to eat. See more: [ Ссылка ]

The berries, which hang about the bushes after the stem and leaves are withered, are almost the size of peas when ripe, a pale scarlet in colour. They are filled with juice of an unpleasant, foetid odour and contain three to six large seeds, greyish-yellow, mottled with black, and are unwholesome to eat. See more: [ Ссылка ]

Lewis' Dictionary of Toxicology. See more: [ Ссылка ]

Contains a toxic oil bryonin. Causes diarrhea in cattle and purgation or constipation, sweating, diuresis and convulsions in horses. See more: [ Ссылка ]

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