Smilax bona-nox

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Read about Smilax bona-nox in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Smilax bona-nox, Linn. Saw-Brier. Underground sts. spiny, often with large tubers, also long, creeping rhizomes: sts. stout, green, densely covered with stiff spines below, lower part of large sts. with a characteristic stiff stellate pubescence not found elsewhere in the genus: lvs. variable, on vegetative branches distinctly hastate or with basal lobes, spiny on margins and midnerve below, smooth and green on both sides; upper lvs. triangular, ovate, thick, fine net-veined: peduncles much longer than petioles, flat, many-fld.: berries 1-seeded, black, not glaucous. Va. and Fla. west to Kans. and N. Mex. B.B. (ed. 2) 1:529.—A rank-growing vine that becomes a bad weed along borders of woods and in half-wooded pastures. CH


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