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True Lover's Knot
Paris quadrifolia
46.2455, 6.10471
Field Notes
Description:
Small herbaceous plant with characteristic four leaves with parallel nerves - and, unusual for monocots, a visible network of secondary nerves in between the main ones. Discreet and solitary mainly yellow-green flower, narrow greenish threadlike petals, green petaloid sepals, eight stamens, and a round purple to red ovary in the center.
Habitat:
Eurasian species, found in forests growing in shadow, and found up to 2000m of altitude. Here, found in a beautiful Bagasse forest (deciduous, predominantly oak, forest - photo 5) on France-Switzerland border, in a valley of lake Geneva, just in between Jura and Alps mountains ranges. Observed on a forest floor.
Notes:
All parts of this plant are toxic, containing two mucose-irritaing substances, paridine et parastyphnine (whatever that may be...). The fruit is a solitary berry, dark blue in color and somewhat blueberry like.
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