Since a young child enchanted by the Flower Fairies books, Black Bryony has been one of my favourite wayside flowers. Or, more correctly, one of my favourite autumn berries. Pretty. But do not touch, for these berries are poisonous.
Black Bryony berries hung all in a row, like Christmas trimmings, their wizened leaves so much resembling the seats of a ski-lift. Photo 10 Sept 2018
Not the photo I had earmarked for the #2018picoftheweek challenge title: Repetition, but nature wins out over manufactured features every time.
crispina kemp 
I love how they grow so evenly spaced… the better to entice unknowing peeps to touch, I bet!
Lovely image, Crispina.
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I thank you, Dale. The flowers sprout from the leaf axil, and the leaves (huge hearts) are usually regularly spaced. And so, regular tempting berries all full of poison. One wonders why the wicked stepmother didn’t use these instead of all that bother to make a poisoned apple!
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I know, right? Maybe the poison she put into the familiar apple was from these very berries…
Maybe Snow would have been onto her with the berries… ya never know…
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Good thinking. And what’s not shown in this photo is that the berries tend to ripen at different times, so a garland might have berries ranging from green, through yellow and orange to red. For me, the fact these all are red emphases the repetitious nature.
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Ooohhh… very cool. Fun challenge..
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Great timing. Couple weeks back, different location, loads of bryony berries, but not one had yet turned red. Looked like an orangery nursery.
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So cool… I had zero knowledge horticulturally speaking…
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Yea, well, I’ve no idea what an orangery nursery would actually look like, I was just imagining all these tiny baby fruits.
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I love it when a prompt has a mind of its own. And yeah, I won’t eat ANY berries in the wild just in case they’re poisonous.
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Always best to be safe. Though I want to cry sometimes at how much good wholesome food we pass by and ignore cos we’ve lost the knowledge of what’s good to eat. If it’s not in plastic, and not in a shop, then we don’t eat it.
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Agreed. It is sad.
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I’ll never look at Bryony the same way again. What a fun entry for Repetition. I never saw them as ski lifts, but now that you said it, I can’t unsee it. 🙂
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I have to say it’s the first time I’ve seen the leaves all crumpled like this. It’s more usual to see them with their heart-shaped leaves beginning to yellow.
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