Green fairy bells

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Disporum viridescens

Green fairy bells, a reference photo
Photo: Peter coxhead · CC0 (licence)

Disporum viridescens is a species of flowering plant in the family Colchicaceae. Like other species in the genus, it grows from a rhizome. The plant is 30 to 80 cm (12 to 31 in), with a stem that may branch. The leaves are more-or-less ovate in shape with a very short petiole (stalk). One or two open flowers are borne at the ends of stems; they have greenish white tepals which are 1.5 to 2 cm (0.59 to 0.79 in) long. Flowering is in late spring to early summer (May to June in the northern hemisphere). Black berries around 1 cm (0.39 in) in diameter appear a few months later.

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Is it poisonous?

We have no record of Green fairy bells being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

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Classification

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Liliales
Family
Colchicaceae
Species
Disporum viridescens

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