The Smilax blossom perfumes the air as it creeps through hedgerows, trees and bushes.
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This climber with its fierce thorns decorates the landscape with both flower and berry.
It delights all the senses and provides food for the berry eater and the nectar drinker.
This is one of the great plants of the Autumn ecology within this place.
Photo: Smilax on the mountain. Courtesy of the author.