White Bryony (Bryonia alba) is a vigorous vine with major destructive potential to native vegetation, forest communities, vineyards, and farmland. Similar to Kudzu in habit, it forms dense mats which shade out the vegetation it grows upon.
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.
Greenish-white flowers are 1 cm across. Long curling tendrils, flowers, and fruit all stem from axils of palmately lobed leaves. The fruit is a 1.5 cm berry which blackens as it ripens, and seeds of which are disseminated by birds. Bryonia alba spreads by seed.
White bryony thrives in full sun. Due to birds depositing seeds where they like to eat and nest, bryony is prevalent in native hawthorn patches and in windbreak, shelterbelt, riparian buffer, and wildlife plantings.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryonia_alba
See Also: flowers, send flowers, flower delivery
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