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Ampelocissus latifolia

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

(Roxburgh) Planchon

Propagation

S.

Hardiness Zone

Min10C

Common Names

• Pureni (Nepali)
• Chimbers (Satar)
• Govila (India)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Assam - India
• E.& C. Nepal
• Pakistan

Natural Habitats

• Paste of root applied to cuts & wounds. Leaves & fruit edible. Open places
• hedges
• shrubland
• coastal forest

Flowering Times

• Jun
• Jul Jun-Aug (India)

Fruiting Times

• Aug to Oct

Large herbaceous vine with glabrous striate stems & tuberous roots. 3-7 angled or lobed serrated glabrescent leaves to 175mm long. Large panicles of deep reddish-brown flowers in thyrsoid cymes with forked tendrils, petals to 2mm long. Fruit a glabrous edible black berry to 10mm long.

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Menninger 1970
• Manandhar 2002
• J.S. Gamble
• The Plant Lis 2t
• BF
• Botanicus
• TFPB