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White Bryony
Bryonia cretica
Bryonia cretica, also known as Cretan bryony or English mandrake, is a perennial species of Bryonia.
Its flowers bloom in the summer and usually grow between 3 and 5mm. Its fruit are toxic. They have been used in traditional medicine.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Latin Herbal
1484 · p.73
Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.654
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.1455
Garden of Health
1507 · p.384
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.328
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.126
On Medical Materials in Six Books
Dioscorides · 1550 · p.658
De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.666
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.809
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.724
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.406
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Bryonia cretica in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 55935.