Anredera vesicaria

Common Name: Texas madeiravine

Family: Basellaceae

Common Synonyms: none

USDA Hardiness Zone: NA

Growth Habit: Vine

Origin: Tropical America

FISC Category: -

FDACS Listed Noxious Weed: No

Introduction Date: Earliest Florida specimen vouchered in 1964

IFAS Assessment:

North: OK
Central: OK
South: OK

Anredera vesicaria — Dan Clark, USDI National Park Service, Bugwood.org

Description

Twining vine with stems to 8 m long. Leaves simple, ovate to elliptic, 2-16 cm long. Tiny white fragrant flowers clustered on branched panicles or racemes, 3-35 cm long. Fruits ovoid, 1-1.4 mm.

Habitat

Disturbed hammocks

Comments

Cultivated for its showy and fragrant flowers.

Control Methods

Manual: NA
Chemical: NA
Biological: NA

Control Notes

No specific recommendations available

References

Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 16+ vols. New York and Oxford.

Wunderlin, R. P., and B. F. Hansen. 2008. Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants (http://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/).[S. M. Landry and K. N. Campbell (application development), Florida Center for Community Design and Research.] Institute for Systematic Botany, University of South Florida, Tampa.

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