The pretty wood or nice wood ( Daphne mezereum ) is a shrub with null and void sheets of the family of the Thymelaeaceae.

Description

It is a shrub with drawn up stem, with oblong sheets, the final ones in rivet washers, soft, null and void. The red or pink flowers appear in February, before the sheets, and exhale a delicious odor. One meets it in France in wood on calcareous Sol, it is rather rare. The red bays mature between July and September. They are toxic for the mammals but are eaten by many birds which allow them dissémination.

Characteristics

• reproductive bodies:
• Standard of inflorescence: racème simple
• distribution of the sexes: Standard hermaphrodite
• of pollination: autogame
• Period of flowering: February at May
• seed:
• Standard of fruit: bay
• Mode of dissemination: endozoochore
• Habitat and distribution:
• standard Habitat: underwoods herbaceous médioeuropéens, basophilic, mountain, of the ubacs
• Surface of distribution: eurasiatic (Europe until the the Caucasus and the Altaï)

On the floor collinéen in France, flowering is early, and begins as of mid-February.