2009
ST5574 : Spindle berries in Leigh Woods
taken 14 years ago, near to Abbots Leigh, North Somerset, England
Spindle berries in Leigh Woods
The woods are noted as a habitat for the increasingly rare native spindle tree with its exotically shaped and coloured berries of which the seeds are poisonous and were once used as a verminifuge against lice, hence 'louse berry'.
The spindle, Euonymus europaeus, has many other local names in Britain, while its generic name comes from the Greek 'having a good name' meaning fortunate.
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