Bittersweet
Solanum dulcamara
In Dutch: Bitterzoet
ClimbersCollection: Native species
Properties
- Height
- 1.5 to 2.5 m
- Spread
- 0.5 to 1 m
- Full grown after
- 1 to 2 years
- Sun
- Full sun to partial shade
- Soil
- Moist and fertile
- Water
- Plenty: likes moist soil
- Maintenance
- Low: remove a dead stem now and then
- Flowers
- June to September, purple with yellow
- For bees
- Yes: plenty of nectar and pollen, June to September
- Hay fever
- Not or weakly allergenic
- Leaves
- Drop in autumn
- Hardy
- Yes
- Native
- Yes
- Poisonous
- All parts, above all the unripe berries
- Pricks or stings
- No
- Price, young
- About €3 to €4 each, in a pot
- Price, grown
- Not for sale
Through the year
- Leaf
- April to October
- Flower
- June to September
- Fruit
- August to November