Bittersweet / Woody Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) (22/05/2022) Footpath along river adjacent to A283 alongside old cement works site/Dacre Gardens, Upper Beeding, W Sussex. Nothing else like it given these flowers.
Bittersweet / Woody Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) (22/05/2022) Footpath along river adjacent to A283 alongside old cement works site/Dacre Gardens, Upper Beeding, W Sussex. Complete with bee!
Bittersweet / Woody Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) (22/05/2022) Footpath along river adjacent to A283 alongside old cement works site/Dacre Gardens, Upper Beeding, W Sussex. And the rear of the flowers are very distinctive too.
Bittersweet / Woody Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) (17/07/2022) West Mill Lane, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex.
Bittersweet / Woody Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) (17/07/2022) West Mill Lane, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex. The stigma poking out.
Bittersweet / Woody Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) (17/07/2022) West Mill Lane, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex. The petals are quite transparent when the light shines through them.
Bittersweet / Woody Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) (24/07/2022) Shoreham Beach, Shoreham-by-Sea, W Sussex. Quite a lot of this around even intermingled in the shingle as very low growing specimens. Fruits developing at the top of some blooms. You can see why another name is "Woody Nightshade" - the stems are, well, woody!
Bittersweet / Woody Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) (22/05/2022) Footpath along river adjacent to A283 alongside old cement works site/Dacre Gardens, Upper Beeding, W Sussex. Upper stem leaves - the lower leaves have side lobes..
Bittersweet / Woody Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) (22/05/2022) Footpath along river adjacent to A283 alongside old cement works site/Dacre Gardens, Upper Beeding, W Sussex. A lower stem leaf - you can juse see here a leaf with lobes hidden beneath the out-of-focus flower buds.
Bittersweet / Woody Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) (24/07/2022) Shoreham Beach, Shoreham-by-Sea, W Sussex. These are sun-stressed leaves - all shrivelled up and turning purple-ish.
Bittersweet / Woody Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) (24/07/2022) Shoreham Beach, Shoreham-by-Sea, W Sussex. Berries in process of ripening - they will go through from green, to yellow, to orange and eventually when fully ripe will be red.
Bittersweet / Woody Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) (24/07/2022) Shoreham Beach, Shoreham-by-Sea, W Sussex.
Bittersweet / Woody Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) (24/07/2022) Shoreham Beach, Shoreham-by-Sea, W Sussex. Two ripe red berries and a couple of young ones.
Bittersweet / Woody Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) (24/07/2022) Shoreham Beach, Shoreham-by-Sea, W Sussex. Ripening berries - the red one is fully ripe.
Bittersweet / Woody Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) (24/07/2022) Shoreham Beach, Shoreham-by-Sea, W Sussex. Fully ripe. At all stages the berries are poisonous.