Phytolacca icosandra

Phytolacca icosandra

Taxobox
name = "Phytolacca icosandra"



image_width = 230px
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regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Caryophyllales
familia = Phytolaccaceae
genus = "Phytolacca"
species = "P. icosandra"
binomial = "Phytolacca icosandra"
binomial_authority = L.

"Phytolacca icosandra", sometimes known as Tropical pokeweed, is a species of flowering plant found in the neotropics, introduced into the warmer areas of the western USA.

It reaches up to 3 m in height, with leaves of 10-20 cm by 5-9 cm. The flowers are produced in racemes 10-15 cm long, each flower 5-10 mm diameter, with 8-20 stamens ("icosandra" means "twenty stamens"). The fruit is a black berry, 5-8 mm diameter.

The herbal cure hongosan is derived from this plant.

External links

* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242415005 Phytolacca icosandra in the "Flora of North America"]
* [http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/paginas_especie/plantae_online/magnoliophyta/phytolacaceae/phytolocca_icosandra/p_icosandra23set98/p_icosandra23set98.html description and photographs] (in Spanish): Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica
* [http://www.semarnat.gob.mx/pfnm2/fichas/phytolacca_icosandra.htm description and one photograph] (in Spanish): the Secretaría del Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, SEMARNAT, the Mexican government's Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources


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