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Cynanchum rostellatum

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Turczaninow) Liede & Khanum

Propagation

S.

Common Names

• Luo mo (Pinyin)
• Gaga-imo (Japan)
• Rough Potato
• Lo mo chia (Chinese)

Geographical Habitats

• Anhui
• Chongqing
• Fujian
• Gansu
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hebei
• Heilongjiang
• Henan
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jiangsu
• Jiangxi
• Jilin
• Liaoning
• Nei Mongol
• Ningxia
• Qinghai
• Shaanxi
• Shandong
• Shanxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Xizang
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang - China
• Hokkaido
• Honshu
• Kyushu
• Shikoku - Japan
• Kazakhstan
• Korea
• Sakhalin Oblast - Russia

Natural Habitats

• Thickets
• forest edges
• stream banks
• montane & hill thickets

Flowering Times

• Jul-Aug (China)
• Aug (Japan)

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Dec (China)

Sparsely white-pubescent or glabrous liana or twining shrub or subshrub. Wavy leaves to 100mm x 60mm. Extra-axillary racemes or umbels to 50mm long with bracts, up to 20 flowers 12mm pinkish-white sometimes purple striped, villous inside, calyx to 5mm long, 5 sepals 3mm long, corolla to 10mm across with 5 lobes recurved at tip and villous inside. Puberulent or glabrous fruit capsule to 100mm long x 20mm

Medicinal uses

Further References

• Bean 1950
• Krussmann 1976
• FOC
• de Candolle
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• FOJ
• Kew
• Swiart 2
• WFO