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Cocculus orbiculatus
Cocculus orbiculatus
- Botanic Family
- Menispermaceae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) de Candolle
- Cultivated
- C, basketry, medicine
Common Names
- Snailseed
- Mu fang ji (Pinyin)
- Huehue (Hawaiian)
- Hue (Hawaiian)
- Hue'ie (Hawaiian)
- 'inalua (Hawaiian)
- Ao-tsuzura-fuji (Japan)
- Dây Xanh (Vietnam)
- Hoang thanh (Vietnam)
- Ao-tsuzura-fuji (Japan)
Geographical Habitats
- Cambodia
- Anhui
- Beijing Shi
- Fujian
- Guangdong
- Guangxi
- Guizhou
- Hainan
- Henan
- Hubei
- Hunan
- Jiangsu
- Jiangxi
- Shaanxi
- Shandong
- Shanxi
- Sichuan
- Taiwan
- Yunnan
- Zhejiang - China
- Tubuai Island - France
- Assam - India
- Java
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- NE. Sumatra - Indonesia
- Hokkaido
- Honshu
- Kyushu
- Shikoku - Japan
- Korea
- Laos
- Johore
- Penang - Malaysia
- Nepal
- Philippines
- Singapore
- Thailand
- Pitcairn Island - UK
- Hawaii - USA
- Vietnam
Natural Habitats
- Forest edges
- bushland
- grassland
- lava
- forest
- coastal trees
- shrubland
- woodland
- lowland thickets
Flowering Times
- Mar-Apr (China)
- Jul-Aug (Japan)
Fruiting Times
Slender deciduous herbaceous or woody villous twining vine trailing or climbing with 3-lobed mucronate leaves glabrous or villous above, hairy beneath to 120mm x 100mm. Male axillary or terminal puberulous cymes or racemes to 70mm long, few or many flowered, 2mm glabrous yellow-white flowers with 9 sepals to 2.5mm long, 6 petals with lobes to 1.5mm long, female axillary and terminal inflorescence racemose & fewer-flowered to 50mm long & red aging blue-black, flowers villous outside, sepals villous outside, 6 petals as in male, glabrous dark blue to black drupe to 8mm across with dorsal ridges
Used for basketry, medicinal uses
Further References
- Rehder 1934
- Bean 1950
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Krussmann 1976
- Huxley 1992
- Mobot
- FOC
- FOH
- GWC 1997
- NYBG
- Mansfeld
- Flora Malesiana
- FOSi
- The Plant List 2
- FS
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- JAA
- FOJ