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Bittersweet is a climbing perennial that grows up to ten feet. Commonly growing close to stream banks and ponds, also found near edges tangled thickets. In the Vancouver lower mainland area, these plants are found along back lanes, and property borders, mingling with shrubs and other vines.

The name "bittersweet" describe the rind of the stem: when it is first tasted,it is bitter, and afterwards, sweet.

The leaves are spade shaped, dark green and commonly have wing-like lobes at their bases. Alternate, stalked, 3-8 cm long, some leaves are unlobed and egg shaped to heart shaped, short-hairy to hairless. The flowers are purple, resembling a shooting star, with petals sweeping backwards, away from the protruding yellow anthers. The plant flowers and produces deep red berries from Spring, to late Summer providing a colorful mixture of red, purple, yellow and green.

Like so many members of the Nightshade family, this plant contains toxic alkaloids and phytosterols which may damage the liver if misused.

Used in correct applications, this plant may be used in treatment of skin disorders, gout, rheumatism, bronchitis, and whooping cough. A modern scientific research has confirmed that the plant has anticancer qualities.

Losses of cattle, horses and sheep have occurred in the United States and Europe. The berries have also been responsible for poisoning of Children of Long Island (see: Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada, by John M. Kingsbury, published by Prentic-Hall Inc.1964)

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