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Anredera vesicaria

Botanic Family

Basellaceae

Author

(Lamarck) C. F. Gaertner

Cultivated

C, ornamental

Common Names

• Suelda con Suelda (Spanish)
• Duan xu luo kui shu (Pinyin)
• Xayillol (Yucatan)

Geographical Habitats

• Bahamas
• Belize
• Brazil
• Cayman Islands
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• El Salvador
• Guadeloupe
• Guatemala
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Netherlands Antilles
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Florida
• Texas
• Virgin islands - USA
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Coastal
• scrubby areas
• forest
• primary forest

Flowering Times

• Sep (Belize) Sep-Dec (Hispaniola) Oct (Jamaica) Jun
• Oct (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

Slender high-climbing herbaceous glabrous twining vine with tuberous roots. Glabrous leaves 80mm x 68mm. Scented aromatic cream or white flowers 2mm x 3.8mm with bractlets 0.8mm long, sepals 1.6mm x 1mm, 6 petals to 2.2mm long x 1mm on long axillary racemes or spikes to 200mm long or terminal pendulous panicles to 500mm long with bracteoles. Fruit a utricle to 1.3mm long with wing 5mm long.

Naturalised

Infusion of leaves used for shampoo. Used for treating inflammation & stop bleeding.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• NAF
• Smithsonian
• FOG
• Kew
• SAFIO
• Standley