Smilax nipponica Miq.

Species

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Characteristics

A herb. It can be erect or climbing. The stem is simple and 8-100 cm long. It is smooth, hollow and slightly pithy. The leaf stalk is 1.5-4.5 cm long and with small wings. It can have tendrils. The leaf blade is oval and 4-20 cm long by 2-14 cm wide. There can be powdery hairs underneath. There is one flowering stalk with 20-30 flowers or both sexes. The flowers are greenish yellow or white. The fruit is a round, blue-black berry. It is 6-7 mm across.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support climber
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality dioecy
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 2.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows in forests and grassy slopes in moist places along streams. In China it grows between 200-1400 m altitude. In Sichuan.
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Meadows and thickets in mountains, C. and S. Japan. Forests, grassy slopes, moist places along streams; at elevations from 200-1,400 metres in China.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 6-11

Usage

The new shoots are eaten. The leaves are eaten with oil and salt.
Uses medicinal oil
Edible fruits leaves roots shoots
Therapeutic use Amenorrhea (unspecified), Carminative (unspecified), Circulation (unspecified), Nightmare (unspecified), Ache(Back) (unspecified), Arthritis (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings, divisions or seedlings.
Mode cuttings divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Smilax nipponica unspecified picture

Distribution

Smilax nipponica world distribution map, present in China, Japan, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), and Taiwan, Province of China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:541671-1
WFO ID wfo-0000742778
COL ID 4XWP3
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Coprosmanthus nipponicus Smilax simadai Smilax higoensis Smilax nipponica Smilax longipedunculata Coprosmanthus simadai Smilax oblonga Smilax herbacea var. oblonga Smilax herbacea var. nipponica Smilax herbacea var. intermedia Smilax nipponica subsp. manshurica Smilax nipponica var. manshurica