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- reach a tree or house. Its leaves are heart-shaped, 10–25 cm wide and with tendrils on the stem. The flowers are cream-colored or somewhat green that come...3 KB (273 words) - 00:13, 25 May 2010
- walls and the like. Shrubs, climbing by tendrils: branches with close lenticillate bark and white pith and with tendrils opposite the Lvs. : Lvs. alternate...6 KB (115 words) - 02:18, 14 January 2010
- should not be allowed to climb houses or wooden structures, as the woody tendrils can damage buildings. Do you have cultivation info on this plant? Edit...3 KB (230 words) - 17:50, 26 July 2010
- glaucous grey-green colour; unlike most other vetches, the leaves do not have tendrils for climbing over other vegetation. The flowers are 1-2.5 cm long, with...5 KB (531 words) - 16:24, 28 October 2009
- climber, supported by tendrils, growing to 1.2 m tall. The leaves are pinnate, with two leaflets and a branched twining tendril at the apex of the petiole...2 KB (128 words) - 06:08, 19 July 2007
- herbs, shrubs, or trees, most of the cultivated kinds climbing by means of tendrils, with flowers of odd structure; some of them produce edible fruits. Mostly...36 KB (516 words) - 05:38, 23 June 2009
- Growth Habit: The passion fruit is a vigorous, climbing vine that clings by tendrils to almost any support. It can grow 15 to 20 ft. per year once established...13 KB (1,933 words) - 19:17, 14 April 2011
- perennial herbs that climb or scramble over other plants with the aid of tendrils at the ends of their leaves and can reach 3 meters in height. They have...5 KB (332 words) - 19:49, 26 July 2010
- most popular in the cuisine of South Asia and Southeast Asia. The shoots, tendrils, and leaves are also eaten as greens. The lace-like flower of T. cucumerina...2 KB (156 words) - 17:17, 29 April 2010
- Trichosanthes is a genus of tropical and subtropical vines. The shoots, tendrils, and leaves of some or possibly all species may be eaten as greens, and...4 KB (272 words) - 17:14, 29 April 2010
- DC. A. virginiana, Hort.). Virginia Creeper. Fig. 2766. High- climbing: tendrils with 5-8 branches ending in adhesive tips: the young growth purplish: lfts...5 KB (115 words) - 18:54, 18 June 2009
- species of annual tendril-climbing herbs, inhabiting the tropics of the Old and New Worlds, mostly in the former. Lvs. 5-7-lobed: tendrils simple or multifid:...4 KB (458 words) - 01:53, 14 December 2009
- lower lvs. with a single pair of lfts. without tendrils, upper with 2-3 pairs of lfts. and branching tendrils; lfts. 1/2-2 in. long, 3/8 – 1 1/2 in. broad...2 KB (80 words) - 11:48, 28 October 2009
- should not be underestimated. In warm weather, it puts out huge numbers of tendrils that grab onto every available surface, and eventually expand into heavy...6 KB (629 words) - 15:42, 23 October 2009
- attractive little fruits, found in warmer parts of the world. Plants with simple tendrils at the axils and very small monoecious, dioecious or polygamous fls., the...3 KB (56 words) - 09:03, 5 January 2010
- smooth or floccose, the plant not so high-climbing as most American species: tendrils intermittent: lvs. mostly thinnish, rounded, with a deep sinus and the...2 KB (80 words) - 16:51, 31 October 2009
- Annual, pubescent: st. erect, angular: lvs. with 8-12 pairs of lfts. without tendrils; lfts. oblong-linear to linear: infl. 2-4-fld.; corolla rose-colored, veined:...2 KB (80 words) - 12:30, 28 October 2009
- in the S., from which it is distinguished by the habitually continuous tendrils, the more felt-like lvs. which are not floccose, and especially by the...3 KB (80 words) - 18:17, 31 October 2009
- plants belonging to Solanaceae). Loganiaceae. Scandent shrubs with short tendrils, or trees, of economic importance: some of the species have been introduced...3 KB (180 words) - 16:17, 22 June 2010
- Ifts. sessile or nearly so and lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, serrate: tendrils 3-4-parted: male fls. small, in panicles equaling or exceeding the lvs...3 KB (115 words) - 15:47, 19 August 2009