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Paris quadrifolia

Photo by XiaoWei
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Field Notes

Description:

A single tall flower, about 20 to 40 cm above the ground. Petal are greenish and really look like leafs. The flower is about 10 cm diameter. It produces a single blueberry-like fruit which is poisonous.

Habitat:

Old established wood on a calcareous soil. Found in Asia and Europe.

Notes:

Deadly poisonous blueberry-like fruit

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Paris quadrifolia

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (4)
Tomas Koubek
Sorry :-) I should have written the whole name, but I didn't know for sure whether they have other Paris species in France...
XiaoWei
@ Tomas : thanks for the tips, I was able to identify it. (Despite it was difficult to search on the web a flower called 'Paris', I have to dig it out from lot of picture of the Paris city)

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PublishedJune 8, 2013

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