WorldFloraDB - Paris quadrifolia

Characteristics

Plants 25--40 cm tall. Rhizome creeping, slender, 2--5 mm thick. Leaves usually 4 or 5, subsessile; leaf blade broadly obovate or ovate, 5--10 × 2.5--5 cm, base subcuneate. Peduncle 7--10 cm. Outer tepals 4, spreading horizontally, green, ovate-lanceolate, 2--3 cm × 5--9 mm; inner ones yellow-green, filiform-linear, 1.5--3 cm × 1--2 mm. Stamens 8; filaments 3--5 mm; anthers 3--6 mm; free portion of connective 4--5 mm. Ovary purple-red, globose, 4--8 mm in diam., 4(or 5)-loculed. Stigma lobes 4 or 5, slender. Berry globose, many seeded. Seeds without aril. Fl. Jul, fr. Aug. 2 n = 15, 20, 25, 30.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

deciduous

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

Spread

endozoochory

Mature width (meter)

0.1 - 0.5

Mature height (meter)

0.25 - 0.35

Root system

rhizome

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

Fruiting months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

c3

Environment

Damp woods on calcareous soils. Forests, thickets, moist places.

Light
Soil humidity
Soil texture
Soil acidity
Soil nutriment
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

Uses	dye environmental use medicinal poison
Edible	-
Therapeutic use	Headache (unspecified), Hairblack (unspecified), Homeopathy (unspecified), Longevity (unspecified), Neuralgia (unspecified), Palpitation (unspecified), Poison (unspecified), Preventitive (unspecified), Rheumatism (unspecified), Tumor(Genital) (unspecified), Narcotic (unspecified), Emetic (unspecified), Gout (unspecified), Purgative (unspecified), Spasm (unspecified)
Human toxicity	strong toxic (whole), strong toxic (fruit)
Animal toxicity	toxic (whole), toxic (fruit)

Cultivation

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.

Mode	divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days)	-
Germination temperacture (C°)	17 - 21
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	-
Minimum temperature (C°)	-
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-