Anredera

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names
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Anredera is a genus of five to ten species of plants native to the neotropics, most of them evergreen vines of dry scrubland and thickets.

Read about Anredera in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Anredera (personal name). Basellàceae. A monotypic genus, allied to Boussingaultia. Vine, with fleshy sts. and lvs., tuberous- rooted: fls. small, white, in long slender mostly axillary spikes; sepals 2, broadly winged ; petals 5, not exceeding sepals; stamens 5, the filaments fattened ; stigma entire. A. scandens, Moq., is native Texas to S. Amer., and planted in Old World tropics, a much-branched vine sometimes cult, in greenhouses, with lvs. ovate and more or less acute, entire. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Cultivation

Species include:

At least one species, A. cordifolia bears edible roots or tubers and leaves similar to those of Basella alba.

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