Anredera

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 Anredera subsp. var.  
Anredera cordifolia
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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.


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.


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

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