Anredera cordifolia (Ten.) Steenis
Madeira Vine / Binahung (Bru.)(M.)
Description
Traditional Medicinal Uses
Ecology
Propagation
Distribution
Precaution
Perennial twining vine that can climb up to 6 m tall. Leaves are simple, alternately placed, heart-shaped, glabrous, thinly fleshy and shiny. Leaf blade is broadly ovate to subcordate, obtuse at apex, rounded or cordate at base with entire margin. Stems are slender and often reddish. Aerial stems produce tubers that are covered in warts. Inflorescence a raceme arising at leaf axils that produces masses of drooping flowers in clusters. Flowers are small, numerous, star-shaped, fragrant, creamy turning dark brown when mature. Rhizomes are thick and
The leaves are eaten as vegetables to maintain general health. The plant is reported for its antimicrobial, antioxidant and antidiabetic
It thrives in moist forest gaps and margins, along streams, in gardens, along roadsides and disturbed sites. It prefers moist soil under partial shade.
The plants are not known to produce seeds and often spread through vegetative growth. It can be vegetatively propagated by tuberous roots and creeping rhizomes.
Native to South America.
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