A herb that keeps growing from year to year. It can grow 50-1.2 m long. The leaves are green and have small leaflets. The leaves are usually twice divided. The flowers are white. The stems form roots where they touch the ground.
Life form | perennial | ||||||||||||
Growth form | herb | ||||||||||||
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Sexuality | hermaphrodite | ||||||||||||
Pollination | entomogamy | ||||||||||||
Spread | - | ||||||||||||
Mature width (meter) | - | ||||||||||||
Mature height (meter) | 1.0 | ||||||||||||
Root system | fibrous-root | ||||||||||||
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Nitrogen fixer | - | ||||||||||||
Photosynthetic pathway | - |
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Soil nutriment | - |
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Uses | medicinal |
Edible | roots stems |
Therapeutic use | Cathartic (root), Emetic (root), Laxative (root), Gynecological Aid (root), Ceremonial Medicine (root), Emetic (seed), Poison (unspecified), Emetic (unspecified) |
Human toxicity | - |
Animal toxicity | - |
Mode | divisions seedlings |
Germination duration (days) | - |
Germination temperacture (C°) | - |
Germination luminosity | - |
Germination treatment | - |
Minimum temperature (C°) | - |
Optimum temperature (C°) | - |
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Productivity | - |
LSID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:845373-1 |
WFO ID | wfo-0001067922 |
COL ID | 74JPL |
BDTFX ID | 102081 |
INPN ID | - |
Wikipedia (EN) | Link |
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