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earing numerous crowded small flowers, 2 to 3 mm long; calyx, 5-parted, the two inner
sepals resembling wings and much larger than the others and resembling petals; corolla,
3-petaled, the upper pair rather narrow, the lower (keel) boat-shaped; petals and inner
sepals at first white, becoming purplish or pinkish with age; stamens 8; fruit, about 2 to
3 mm long, oblong, glabrous, not winged; seeds, about 1.5 mm long, oval-oblong, black
with tiny white hairs and a 2-lobed whitish caruncle. Weed along Topside running track
and in other waste places. 5, 6(203), 7.
POLY GONACEAE (Buckwheat Family)
Antigonon leptopus Hook. & Am. "Mexican creeper", "mountain rose",
"confederate vine", "chain of love", "love vine", "hearts on a chain", "coral vine"
Recent introduction. Mexico. Occasional. Perennial herbaceous climbing to
scrambling vine with slender glabrous stems, axillary tendrils and tuberous roots; leaves,
5 to 12 cm long, alternate, broadly ovate, cordate, apiculate to acuminate, net-veined,
wrinkled and wavy-edged; petioles, 1 to 5 cm long; inflorescences, long, slender, loose,
6- to 15-flowered racemes which end in branched tendrils; pedicels about 1 cm long;
flowers about 13 mm long; tepals 5, rose pink or white with a darker center, becoming
membranous, greenish, reticulate-veined; fruit, up to 1.5 cm long, a triangular, brownish
achene; seed, longitudinally grooved. Planted ornamental and spontaneous in waste places
and ruderal habitats. 3(58679), 5(59), 6, 7, 8(9562).
Coccoloba uvifera (L.) Jacq.
syn. Polygonurn uvtfira L.
"sea grape"
Recent introduction. Trop. America. Rare. Small glabrous tree, up to 8 m or
higher, with thick branchlets and spreading branches; leaves, 10 to 20 cm across, usually
broader than long, alternate, suborbicular, cordate, firm, coriaceous, glossy, glabrous,
the midrib and lateral nerves reddish; inflorescences, erect spike-like racemes, about 15
cm long; individual flowers with 5 tepals, 8 stamens and 3 styles, greenish-yellow,
fragrant; fruit, about 1 cm across, a subglobose or pyriform, reddish berry-like drupe,
sweetish-acidic, astringent, edible. Planted ornamental near Buada Lagoon. 3(58787), 6.