A small herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 20-30 cm high. It has a slender rootstock. The stems are leafy and smooth. The flowers are small and green. The fruit are fleshy and bright red when ripe. They are edible.
Life form | perennial |
Growth form | herb |
Growth support | parasite |
Foliage retention | - |
Sexuality | |
Pollination | - |
Spread | - |
Mature width (meter) | - |
Mature height (meter) | 0.04 |
Root system | - |
Rooting depth (meter) | - |
Root diameter (meter) | - |
Flower color | - |
Blooming months | - |
Fruit color | - |
Fruiting months | - |
Nitrogen fixer | - |
Photosynthetic pathway | - |
Light | |
Soil humidity | |
Soil texture | |
Soil acidity | |
Soil nutriment | - |
Hardiness (USDA) |
Uses | medicinal |
Edible | fruits |
Therapeutic use | Cathartic (bark), Dermatological Aid (bark), Emetic (bark), Cathartic (leaf), Dermatological Aid (leaf), Emetic (leaf), Unspecified (unspecified) |
Human toxicity | - |
Animal toxicity | - |
Mode | seedlings |
Germination duration (days) | - |
Germination temperacture (C°) | - |
Germination luminosity | - |
Germination treatment | - |
Minimum temperature (C°) | - |
Optimum temperature (C°) | - |
Size | - |
Vigor | - |
Productivity | - |
LSID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:108804-2 |
WFO ID | wfo-0000699709 |
COL ID | 3FNXS |
BDTFX ID | - |
INPN ID | 761888 |
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