Appearance
It is a perennial herbaceous plant with one or more unbranched stems 15–60 centimetres tall growing from an underground rhizome. The apex of each stem has whorl of three abruptly pointed bracts 4–15 centimetres long and 6–18 centimetres broad, and on strong stems, also a solitary flower hanging below the leaves on a 0.5–3.5 centimetres peduncle.The flower is perfect, with three slender pale green sepals 9–30 millimetres long, three broad white petals 15–25 millimetres long and 5–15 millimetres broad, six purple stamens, and a solitary pistil; flowering is in late spring to early summer. The fruit is a six-lobed reddish berry up to 3 cm diameter, ripening in late summer.
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