[4] The fruit, produced from July onwards, is an ovoid capsule containing numerous seeds, opening at the apex by 10 teeth which curve back.

[4] Silene dioica is native to northern and central Europe and is locally abundant throughout the British Isles.

[10] The nectar of the flowers is utilised by bumblebees and butterflies, and several species of moth feed on the foliage.

In this case by Microbotryum silenes-dioicae known as anther-smut[11] which appears as a mass of brown spores in the mouth of the flower where the anthers would normally be.

On the Isle of Man, it is known as "blaa ny ferrishyn" or "fairy flower", and there is a local taboo against picking it.