Description and ecology Bryonia

bryonies perennial, tendril-climbing, diclinous or dioecious herbs palmately lobed leaves , flowers in axillary clusters. fruit smooth, globular berry.

the english species, b. dioica (white bryony), grows in hedgerows far north yorkshire.

bryonia used food plant larvae of lepidoptera (butterflies , moths), including tortrix moth phtheochroa rugosana (recorded on red bryony, b. dioica) , cabbage moth (mamestra brassicae).