Bryony
Bryonia
Bryonia is a genus of flowering plants in the gourd family. Bryony /ˈbraɪ.əni/ is its best-known common name. They are native to western Eurasia and adjacent regions, such as North Africa, the Canary Islands and South Asia.
7 branches of this genus, most-observed first
White Bryony
speciesBryonia cretica
Eastern White-bryony
speciesBryonia alba
Bryonia verrucosa
speciesBryonia verrucosa
Bryonia syriaca
speciesBryonia syriaca
Bryonia aspera
speciesBryonia aspera
Bryonia multiflora
speciesBryonia multiflora
Bryonia melanocarpa
speciesBryonia melanocarpa
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
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.892
History of Plants in Four Books
Valerius Cordus · 1561 · p.254
Herbarius
1485 · p.74
Herbarius latinus (with French synonyms)
1486 · p.75
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.473
Herbal of Virtues
1499 · p.73
The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation
Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.270
Garden of Health
1507 · p.60
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.76
Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.1529
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Bryonia 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 55933.