Stink wine
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Stink Wine ( Paederia foetida ) |
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The stink wine ( Paederia foetida ) is a type of plant in the red family (Rubiaceae).
description
The stink wine is a deciduous, perennial creeper that grows up to 9-10 meters high. The slender shoot axes are more or less hairy.
The egg-shaped to lanceolate, shiny deep green, mostly opposite and whole-edged leaves are up to 21 cm long and 7 cm wide and give off a sulphurous scent when touched. The blunt to rounded or often more or less heart-shaped, round-pointed to pointed blade at the base is bristly ciliate and more or less slightly bristly haired. The slender petioles are up to 5 cm long and have fine hairs. There are small stipules present.
The white, bell-shaped and five-fold, hermaphrodite flowers with a double bloom and reddish throat are up to 1.5 cm long. They appear axially or terminally in long-handled screws . The calyx is small, with triangular, bald tips. The overgrown crown with small spreading lobes is short and densely hairy on the outside and long glandular hair on the inside in the upper part. The stamens in the middle of the corolla tube are included. The two-chamber ovary is (semi) inferior in bare flower cups with just an overgrown pen long with two, filamentous, twisted something and usually included branches with each zweiästiger scar . There is a small discus .
Roundish, small and orange-brownish, one to two- seeded , smooth stone fruits with small calyx remains are formed.
Spread and history
The stink wine is native to tropical and subtropical Asia and has spread to Melanesia , Hawaii and the Mascarene Islands as well as the more southern USA.
use
The consumption of the fruit stains the teeth black and is said to help against toothache.
literature
- JG Baker: Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles. Reeve, 1877, p. 158, online at biodiversitylibrary.org.
Web links
- Paederia foetida at Useful Tropical Plants.
- Paederia foetida in CABI Invasive Species Compendium.
- Paederia foetida at PROTA.
Individual evidence
- ^ Paederia foetida in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
- ↑ H. Panda: Herbs Cultivation and Medicinal Uses . National Institute Of Industrial Research, Delhi 1999, ISBN 81-86623-46-9 .