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Old 06-08-2003, 11:43 PM
Kay Easton
 
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Default Mystery city vine...

In article , Franz Heymann
writes

"Kay Easton" wrote in message
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In article m,
gardengibbon writes
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This one, however has me stuck. It has beautiful lace and pale yellow
flowers, no wider then 10mm, leaves are approx 60mm wide, and it
attaches itself to our privet hedge & potatoes by fine tendrills. In
July / August it started to produce bright pillar-box berries, each
with a single seed (as far as I could tell).

Here (should be attached) is a picture.

Wild guess - white bryony? Bryonia cretica.


I'm bothered about that. The leaf shape does not look right to me.
What about one of the nightshades?

Agreed - not quite 'ivy leaf' shaped enough, but I wondered if maybe
there is a juvenile leaf form, like mulberries.

Not a nightshade, surely? Red berries would be woody nightshade and the
leaf shape and texture is wrong, and the nightshades twine, they don't
have tendrils.
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Kay Easton

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