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Black Bryony
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Black Bryony

Dioscorea communis

Dioscorea communis or Tamus communis is a species of flowering plant in the yam family Dioscoreaceae and is commonly known as black bryony, lady's-seal or black bindweed.

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Black Bryony in Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants

Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants

Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.131

Black Bryony in Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides

Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides

Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.1530

Black Bryony in A New Herbal, or History of Plants

A New Herbal, or History of Plants

Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.406

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In the stacks

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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 82691.