Bittersweet Solanum dulcamara

Features

Bittersweet is a very woody herbaceous perennial vine. Habitat - among the bushes, on the ruins, a bright forest.

Species	Scrubs (Nanofanerophytes)
Living space	Bright forest, Cultivated areas
Size	30-200 cm

Description

It has a creeping stem that is woody at the bottom. It grows to a height of 30 to 200 cm. Leaves stalked, simple or often trifoliate. The flowers have a purple corolla and bright yellow almost grown anthers. Fruit red, ovoid strawberry. It grows among shady shrubs on hillsides, ruins from the lowlands to the Montana belt. It is toxic. Bitter juice, which contains the alkaloid solanine and the even bitter saponing glycoside dulcamarin, has a healing effect.