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Calystegia hederacea (Japanese false bindweed)

Synonyms:

Infraspecies

Calystegia hederacea var. longipedicellata

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [2]  Although no reports of toxicity have been seen for this species, at least some, if not all members of this genus are purgative[173], some caution is advised.
Leaf Type [3]  Deciduous
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Bees, Lepidoptera
Structure [2]  Vine
Height [2]  16.4 feet (5 m)
View Plants For A Future Record : Calystegia hederacea

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Bolshekhekhtsirsky Zapovednik Ia 112282 Khabarovsk, Russia
Tigrovaia Balka Zapovednik State Nature Reserve Ia 146860 Tajikistan  

External References

USDA Plant Profile

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Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0