Bittersweet
Solanum dulcamara
Poisonous — do not eat it.
If someone has eaten it, call emergency services or your poison control centre.
Dangerous to: cattle, sheep, horses
If an animal has eaten this, call your vet.
About
Solanum dulcamara, also known as bittersweet, bittersweet nightshade, bitter nightshade, blue bindweed, Amara Dulcis, climbing nightshade, fellenwort, felonwood, poisonberry, poisonflower, scarlet berry, snakeberry, trailing bittersweet, trailing nightshade, violet bloom, or woody nightshade, is a species of vine in the potato genus Solanum, family Solanaceae. It is native to Europe and Asia, and widely naturalised elsewhere, including North America, where it is an invasive problem weed.
- Family
- Solanaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Solanum dulcamara
- Slug
- solanum-dulcamara
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Solanaceae
- Genus
- Solanum
- Species
- dulcamara
- Wikidata QID
- Q147707
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 3
- Data completeness
- 43
Generated sections & citations
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