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Bindweed contains poisonous alkaloids.

This is a real problem for other plants because it's capable of outgrowing them and taking all the sunlight, nutrients, and water for itself.

But it isn't necessarily poisonous to humans. Its stem contains a milky substance, and if you consume too much of this, it can have a laxative effect. Some cultures use bindweed as a herbal medicine to treat urinary tract problems, constipation and to increase bile production. The people who use bindweed for these purposes have perfected the dose and know how to use it in a safe manner.

It can be incredibly dangerous for animals. When animals, such as horses, eat bindweed it can cause disruption to their digestive and nervous systems. This can lead to progressive weight loss and colic. In severe cases, where an animal has eaten a large amount of bindweed, it can be fatal.

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Wondering whether bindweed is poisonous to humans or animals? We discuss all things bindweed and bindweed removal in our latest blog!

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Charles Darwin: On the Movement of Plants

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Charles Darwin: On the Movement of Plants

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Darwin, C. R. 1865. On the movements and habits of climbing plants. [Read 2 February] Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 9: 1-118, 13 text figures [offprint].

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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1865.
On the movements and habits of climbing plants. [Read 2 February.] Journal of the Linnean
Society of London (Botany) 9: 1-118, 13 text figures [offprint].

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A domesticated food plant often counted as a cereal, but the buckwheats are not closely related to true cereals.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fagopyrum tataricum, also known as Tartary buckwheat, green buckwheat, ku qiao, Tatar buckwheat,[citation needed ] or bitter buckwheat, is a domesticated food plant in the genus Fagopyrum in the family Polygonaceae. With another species in the same genus, common buckwheat, it is often counted as a cereal, but the buckwheats are not closely related to true cereals.

Tartary buckwheat is more bitter and contains more rutin than common buckwheat. It also contains other bioactive components such as flavonoids, phenolic acids, 2-hydroxybenzylamine and quercitrin.

Known in Chinese as "bitter buckwheat" ( (韃靼蕎麦 , Chinese: 苦荞麦; pinyin: kǔqiáomài ) and in Japan as dattan-sobaダッタンソバ), Tartary buckwheat was domesticated in East Asia and is also cultivated in Europe and North America. While it is an unfamiliar food in the West, it is common in the Himalayan region today, as well as other regions in Southwest China such as Sichuan province.[citation needed ] Tartary buckwheat is commonly roasted to make buckwheat tea, and it can also be distilled to make alcohol. While not traditionally eaten in Japan, due to its high rutin content it was briefly popular as a health fad in Japan in the late 1990s.

The plant has been cultivated in many parts of the world; however, when found among other crops it is considered a weed. Less bitter varieties are now commercially available.

Fagopyrum tataricum contains aromatic substances. The most important difference when compared to the aroma of Fagopyrum esculentum is the absence of salicylaldehyde and presence of naphthalene.

Fagopyrum tataricum seeds from Mustang, Nepal

A bowl of Fagopyrum tataricum seeds

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Fagopyrum tataricum , also known as Tartary buckwheat, green buckwheat, ku qiao, Tatar buckwheat,[citation needed ] or bitter buckwheat, is a domesticated food plant in the genus Fagopyrum in the family Polygonaceae. With another species in the same genus, common buckwheat, it is often counted as a cereal, but the buckwheats are not closely related to true cereals.

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Calystegia spithamaea, which common names include: low false bindweed, low bindweed, erect bindweed, and upright bindweed is a species of plant found in eastern North America. It is listed as threatened in Maine and Vermont and endangered in Massachusetts and New Jersey. It is listed as a species of special concern in Connecticut, where it is believed to be extirpated.

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Calystegia spithamaea, which common names include: low false bindweed, low bindweed, erect bindweed, and upright bindweed,[1] is a species of plant found in eastern North America.

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Ipomoea ()[3][4] is the largest genus in the plant family Convolvulaceae, with over 600 species. It is a large and diverse group, with common names including morning glory, water convolvulus or water spinach, sweet potato, bindweed, moonflower, etc.[5] The genus occurs throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, and comprises annual and perennial herbaceous plants, lianas, shrubs, and small trees; most of the species are twining climbing plants.

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A fast-growing annual flowering plant native throughout Europe, Asia and northern Africa.

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“Black bindweed” redirects here. For another plant with the same common name, see Dioscorea communis.

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Learning and recording the wild plants of Lanarkshire

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Learning and recording the wild plants of Lanarkshire

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Calystegia and Convolvulus species - Bindweeds — BSBI VC77

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Calystegia sepium and Calystegia silvatica are both common species. Calystegia sepium Hedge Bindweed is common in waste places and scrubby areas, generally not far from buildings. Climbs by twining its stems anti-clockwise round other plants, posts. Calystegia silvatica Greater Bindwee

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Calystegia ( bindweed, false bindweed, or morning glory) is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the bindweed family Convolvulaceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution in temperate and subtropical regions, but with half of the species endemic to California. They are annual or herbaceous perennial twining vines growing 1-5 m tall, with spirally arranged leaves. The flowers are trumpet-shaped, 3-10 cm diameter, white or pink, with (in most species) a sometimes inflated basal epicalyx.

The genus bears much similarity to a related genus Convolvulus, and is sometimes combined with it; it is distinguished primarily by the pollen being smooth, and in the ovary being unilocular.

Some of the species, notably Calystegia sepium and C. silvatica, are problematic weeds, which can swamp other more valuable plants by climbing over them, but some are also deliberately grown for their attractive flowers.

Calystegia species are eaten by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Bedellia somnulentella (recorded on C. sepium) and small angle shades.

The name is derived from two Greek words kalyx or kalux, "cup", and stege, "a covering", meaning "a covering cup", this refers to the large bracts that cover the sepals.

The following species are recognised in the genus Calystegia:

Calystegia affinis

Calystegia atriplicifolia - nightblooming false bindweed

Calystegia binghamiae

Calystegia brummittii

Calystegia catesbiana - Catesby's false bindweed

Calystegia collina - Coast Range false bindweed

Calystegia felix

Calystegia hederacea - Japanese false bindweed

Calystegia × howittiorum

Calystegia × krauseana

Calystegia longipes - Paiute false bindweed, plateau morning glory

Calystegia × lucana

Calystegia macaunii - Macoun's false bindweed

Calystegia macrostegia - island false bindweed

Calystegia malacophylla - sierra false bindweed

Calystegia marginata - small-flowered white bindweed New Zealand[6]

Calystegia × melnikovae

Calystegia occidentalis - chaparral false bindweed

Calystegia peirsonii - Peirson's false bindweed

Calystegia pellita - hairy false bindweed

Calystegia pubescens

Calystegia × pulchra - hairy bindweed

Calystegia purpurata - Pacific false bindweed

Calystegia × scania

Calystegia sepium - large bindweed, hedge bindweed, bearbind, hedgebell (type species)

Calystegia silvatica - great bindweed, shortstalk bindweed

Calystegia soldanella - sea bindweed, seashore false bindweed, beach morning glory

Calystegia spithamaea - low false bindweed, upright bindweed

Calystegia stebbinsii - Stebbins' false bindweed, Stebbins' morning glory

Calystegia subacaulis - hillside false bindweed

Calystegia tuguriorum - New Zealand bindweed, pōuwhiwhi, pōwhiwhi, rarotawake[7]

New Zealand bindweed

Calystegia vanzuukiae

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Calystegia ( bindweed, false bindweed, or morning glory) is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the bindweed family Convolvulaceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution in temperate and subtropical regions, but with half of the species endemic to California.

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland

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Grime, Hodgson & Hunt (2007) provide a detailed account of the ecology of the common subspecies, C. sepium ssp. sepium. The other, ssp. roseata, is a plant of saltmarsh and maritime grassland. C. sepium ssp. sepium is recorded on riverbanks, road verges, waste places, manure heaps, rubble, hedges and mires, but is apparently absent from woodland ( ibid.). In undisturbed semi-natural vegetation, such as reedbeds, it is an inconspicuous and non-invasive component of the vegetation; but in abandoned gardens and spoil heaps it can become extremely abundant, smothering other plants. This seems to be dependent on a level of soil disturbance, which allows it to reproduce by fragments of rhizomes or roots. Sexual reproduction is much less significant and, as plants are self-incompatible, seed set is often poor. Rodwell (1991-2000) gives quite a few NVC communities for C. sepium, including three woodland types: W2, W5 and W21. He also gives numerous swamps and mires. Here is the full list: M22, M27, S4, S5, S6, S13, S21, S24, S25, S26, S28, SM28, OV13, OV25, OV26, OV27, OV30 and OV42. Rodwell ( op. cit.) does not give any communities for C. silvatica or C. sepium ssp. roseata, so one must assume that the above apply to C. sepium agg. - a loose term for any of these three taxa. This is unfortunate, as each clearly has a very distinct ecology.

Calystegia silvatica
Photograph: A.J. Lockton

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Calystegia sepium | BSBI Species Accounts

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Grime, Hodgson & Hunt (2007) provide a detailed account of the ecology of the common subspecies, C. sepium ssp. sepium. The other, ssp. roseata, is a plant of saltmarsh and maritime grassland. C. sepium ssp. sepium is recorded on riverbanks, road verges, waste places, manure heaps, rubble, hedges and mires, but is apparently absent from woodland ( ibid.).

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Learn how to get to grips with hedge and field bindweed, in our expert guide, with advice from Alan Titchmarsh

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A climbing plant of woodlands, hedgerows, riverbanks and gardens, Hedge bindweed can become a pest in some places. It has large, trumpet-shaped, white flowers and arrow-shaped leaves.

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Hedge bindweed and field bindweed are both UK native wildflowers. They are beneficial to wildlife, with attractive white and pink funnel-shaped flowers. However, they are often unwelcome in gardens due to their spreading roots and twining stems.

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Calystegia sepium (hedge bindweed, Rutland beauty, bugle vine, heavenly trumpets, bellbind, granny-pop-out-of-bed and many others) is a species of flowering plant in the family Convolvulaceae. It has a subcosmopolitan distribution throughout temperate regions of the North and South hemispheres.