Just thought you might be wondering
what this rampant climber with the heart-shaped leaves is.
It climbs over hedges and banks, up an old-mans-beard stem or here up a rose stem.
It's black Bryony (Dioscorea communis) and is poisonous so no munching. It prefers woods and needs both male and female plants to produce the tempting red berries.
Black Bryony is in the Yam family and no relation at all to White Bryony which has divided leaves and is in the cucmber family. White Bryony is also a climber and produces skeins of red berries in the autumn.
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