Climber id please

[Pesky Wabbit]

Whats this climber ?

[Pesky Wabbit]

[shirlton]

I don't know the name of it but get it out cos it strangles everything. We had some on our plot and we do get a few seedlings now and again but we get em straight out.

[Bugloss2009]

it's white bryony

[caroline7758]

Yes, white bryony- I have this in my garden. I let it scramble over my leylandii where it looks quite pretty, then when it dies back it's easy to pull out. The birds get the berries (I think they are poisonous to humans) and it can be a skin irritant so wear gloves! It has never spread to any other part of the garden.

[small]

I believe White Bryony is a fairly dangerous plant to keep around,
I have a lot in my hedgerows and find it difficult to eradicate.  One of the baddies IMHO.
I found this interesting website
http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/b/brywhi77.html
Sorry I don't know how to make it a link.....

[GrannieAnnie]

I believe White Bryony is a fairly dangerous plant to keep around,
I have a lot in my hedgerows and find it difficult to eradicate.  One of the baddies IMHO.
I found this interesting website
http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/b/brywhi77.html
Sorry I don't know how to make it a link.....

So that explains why Caesar never died of electrocution: "Augustus Caesar used to wear a wreath of Bryony during a thunderstorm to protect himself from lightning."  One learns such worthwhile things on A4A ;D

[campanula]

try and dig it out - you will learn the meaning of enormous. It has a root like a turbo parsnip, going down to australia. A nasty plant, imho.

[Pesky Wabbit]

Thanks to all.

I think I'll pull the majority of it and roundup the rest.

[happygardner]

Thanks for that I didnt know what it was either I didnt know that it was poisonous Dont you pick up some brilliant info from this site

Lorraine

[Digeroo]

I have a lot of it in the garden it is a real pain.  I have the idea that you should wear gloves to handle it.  So I have a nasty habit of leaving it and thinking I must get some gloves and then it gets bigger and bigger before I finally get the gloves on.

The roots are horrendous and it seems to be able to grow from quite a small piece left in the soil  Just seems to sprout out the side.   I never know what it do with the roots.  I am worried that someone will see it in the green bins and think it is a nice fat parsnip, so I wrap them in newspaper.