Smilax sieboldii Miq.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Smilax sieboldii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/smilax/smilax-sieboldii/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

Genus

Glossary

ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Smilax sieboldii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/smilax/smilax-sieboldii/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

A deciduous or semi-evergreen species, the stems round or somewhat ribbed, and more or less armed with slender prickles; branches distinctly angular. Leaves ovate with a heart-shaped base and a long fine point, five-or seven-nerved, margins minutely jagged; green both sides, 112 to 3 in. long, two-thirds as wide. Flowers in small umbels of four to seven blossoms, green; main flower-stalk 12 to 58 in. long. Berries black, 14 in. wide, often in threes.

Native of Japan, Korea, China and Formosa; introduced in 1908, perhaps before. It is a little known species in gardens, very distinct from S. china, which also occurs in Japan, in the smaller, black fruits, fewer flowered umbels, and triangular-ovate leaves.