Smilax bona-nox

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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 The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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