Baltoji brienė – Bryonia alba

PLANT NAME
Lithuanian plant name	Baltoji brienė
Latin plant name	Bryonia alba L.
English plant name	Black-berried Bryony
TYPE OF PARTERRE	Clump, beds (mixborder) Wild plant parterre Solitaire
ASSORTMENT	supplementary
GROWING PLACE CHARACTERISTICS
Soil	average wet soils dry soils
Lighting	Heliophilous Half heliophobic
Spacing, cm	From 50 to 80
PLANT HEIGHT AND HABITUS
Height	very tall – 81 cm and over
Habitus	flower with expressive habitus, for design as accent
PLANTS ORNAMENTALITY
Leaf color	green
Blossom color	yellow, yellow tints
Blooming time	1-st half of the summer - June 2-nd decade- July 2-nd decade 2-nd half of the summer - July Third Decade - August
Blooming period	1 month
General ornamentality	average decorative
Ornamentality duration, months	4
Group	logn-lived perennial (grown 7 and more years)
Bioecological group	Perennial
PLANT PROPAGATION
Propagation methods: seeds, cuttings. About 80 seeds per 1 gram. 1000 seedlings per 15 - 20 grams of seeds sown. Seeds are sown to the final growing place in May. Plants form tuber. After 6-7 years tuber can become 20-25 cm long and 15-20 cm wide.