Tom Gilks / Man climbing and harvesting Khat tree (catha edulis) Meru, Kenya

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of Bittersweet (Solanum dulcamara). Detail of leaves and fruit. Pencil and watercolor painting.

Yukihiro Fukuda / Japanese macaque / Snow monkey {Macaca fuscata} feeding on seeds of the Bittersweet plant, Jigokudani, Nagano, Japan

Bernard Castelein / Bitter nightshade (Solanum dulcamara), Peerdsbos, Brasschaat, Belgium. July

Ernie Janes / Spindle (Euonymus europacus) berries

MYN / Dirk Funhoff / Bittersweet / woody nightshade (Solanum dulcamara), Büchelberg, Germany. Meetyourneighbours.net project.

Nick Upton / Spindle tree berries (Euonymus europaeus) with orange seeds visible in splitting capsular fruits, Gloucestershire, UK, October.

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Staff vine (Maytenus dhofarensis) close-up of fruit, Oman, November

Aflo / Yellow throated bunting ( Emberiza elegans) perched on Bittersweet plant (Celastrus) in snow, Kyoto, Japan. March.

MYN / Marko Masterl / Wartybark-like Euonymus (Euonymus verrucosa) with seeds, Slovenia, Europe, September. meetyourneighbours.net project

MYN / Marko Masterl / Large-leaved Spindle (Euonymus latifolius) with seeds, Slovenia, Europe, August. meetyourneighbours.net project

Paul Harcourt Davies / Common spindle tree (Euonymus europaeus) poisonous berries containing terpenes, caffeine and theobromine. Podere Montecucco, near Orvieot, Umbria, Italy, October.