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Calystegia sepium

Botanic Family
Convolvulaceae
Author
(Linnaeus) R. Brown
Propagation
D.S.

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Tall slender herbaceous rhizomatous glabrous or slightly pubescent perennial twiner with lobed or entire mucronate hastate leaves to 80mm x 70mm. Flowers solitary to 70mm, white or usually pink with white mid petal line bands with bracts to 30mm long, corolla to 75mm long, solitary in leaf axils, rarely all white. Fruit a capsule to 10mm long.

A known weed

Stalks edible, roots & tubers boiled & eaten in China, though considered inedible. Medicinal uses

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