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Please help identify this weed
jezcaretaker
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I've been told the picture is of a weed, deadly knightshade. I've reasearched deadly knightshade and although there are green berries on it, the flowers are totally different.
Help would be much appreciated as I am only going by internet info and it would be great to know what it is.
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White bryony I think, jez.
That was the closest I could find, but couldn't find any pictures showing the perfectly formed smooth little green berries, although the flowers do look very similar in some pictures. Do these berries appear at certain stages only?
Deadly Nightshade is pretty rare. You are most likely to encounter it in an abandoned chalk pit.
It has green buds which open to white flowers then small green berries form which eventually turn yellow, orange then red. Every part of the plant is poisonous.
http://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/white-bryony