Q. I have a vine with purple flowers and red berries climbing all over my fence. My neighbor said it's poisonous. What is it? — Bridget, from Bethel a. The vine you brought into our helpline is ...
Bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) is a climbing perennial vine native to Eurasia. It was probably introduced into the U.S. for medicinal and ornamental purposes. Care should be taken when ...
Its attractive red berries, succulent leaves and brightly coloured flowers might look like a tasty snack for a hungry herbivore. But while the berries of the bittersweet nightshade already hold enough ...
If the bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) is consumed by herbivores, the plant secretes a nectar directly from the wounds that attracts ants and thus protects the plant from further feeding ...
A few times while out hunting, still in my teens, I came across a plant that I’d never seen before. It was vine-like and had red berries with a yellowish type sheath split open around the berry. I was ...
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Nature is, it’s often said, red in tooth and claw. But sometimes a claw scratches someone’s back in return for a symbiotic scratch of one’s own. Ants provide many examples of such mutually beneficial ...
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