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Distimake tuberosus
Distimake tuberosus
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) A.R. Simões & Staples
- Propagation
- D.S.
- Cultivated
- C, ornamental
- Hardiness Zone
- Min7C 8-11
Common Names
- Spanish Arbour Vine
- Wood Rose
- Yellow Morning Glory
- Spanish Woodbine
- Hawaiian Woodrose
- Ceylon Morning-glory
- Pilikai (Hawaiian)
- Spanish Morning Glory
- Regret-vine
- Rosa de Madera
- Flor de Palo
- Liane Jaune (Guadeloupe)
- Liane à Tonnelle (Guadeloupe)
- Liane à Courtine (Guadeloupe)
- Bois Patate (Guadeloupe)
- Rose de Jéricho (Guadeloupe)
Geographical Habitats
- Bahamas
- Belize
- Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Venezuela
Natural Habitats
- Disturbed areas
- montane rain forest
- shrubland
- secondary forest
- thickets.
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Herbaceous deciduous glabrous perennial evergreen woody twining high-climbing liane with cylindrical tuberous root. 5-7-palmatilobed glabrous or puberulous leaves to 140mm long, 160mm diameter. Yellow, orange or white axillary flowers solitary or in dichasia or cymes with minute triangular bracts to 2mm, 5 glabrous mucronate sepals to 30mm long, glabrous yellow corolla to 55mmx 60mm. Pale brown glabrous fruit capsule 40mm diameter shaped like a carved rose with persistent accrescent sepals to 60mm in fruit.
A rampant plant, known weed, prohibited in some areas
Edible tubers.
Further References
- Sturtevant 1919
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Herklots 1976
- van der Spuy 1976
- Huxley 1992
- RHS A-Z
- Mobot
- NYBG
- Llamas 2003
- Neotrop
- Bodkin
- FB
- G. Don
- VOPR
- FOTA
- JAA
- Kew
- SAFIO
- Standley
- Merremia
- IFV