Sargentodoxa cuneata (Oliver) Rehd. & Wils.

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Genus

Sargentodoxa

Synonyms

Holboellia cuneata Oliver

Other taxa in genus

Glossary

alternate: Attached singly along the axis not in pairs or whorls.
berry: Fleshy indehiscent fruit with seed(s) immersed in pulp.
carpel: Female reproductive organ of a flower. Composed of ovary style and stigma. Typically several carpels are fused together in each flower (syncarpous). The number of them can be of taxonomic significance; it can often be assessed by counting the stigma branches or the chambers in the fruit.
cone: Term used here primarily to indicate the seed-bearing (female) structure of a conifer (‘conifer’ = ‘cone-producer’); otherwise known as a strobilus. A number of flowering plants produce cone-like seed-bearing structures including Betulaceae and Casuarinaceae.
glabrous: Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
leaflet: Leaf-like segment of a compound leaf.
ovate: Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
keel petal: (in the flowers of some legumes) The two front petals fused together to form a keel-like structure.
unisexual: Having only male or female organs in a flower.

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

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'Sargentodoxa cuneata' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/sargentodoxa/sargentodoxa-cuneata/). Accessed 2024-12-06.

Sargentodoxa cuneata.

A unisexual, twining, deciduous climber 25 ft or more high; young shoots glabrous. Leaves dark glossy green, alternate, glabrous, composed of three leaflets borne on a common stalk 2 to 4 in. long. Side leaflets stalkless, obliquely ovate (or like a heart-shaped leaf halved lengthwise), pointed, up to 41⁄2 in. long, half as much wide; middle leaflet obovate, oval, or lozenge-shaped, smaller than the side ones and on a stalk 1⁄2 in. long. Male flowers greenish yellow, fragrant, borne numerously in pendulous racemes 4 to 6 in. long; each flower has six petal-like, narrowly oblong sepals 1⁄2 in. long, 1⁄8 in. wide, and is borne on a stalk 1⁄2 to 3⁄4 in. long; stamens six. Female flowers (borne on separate plants) also in pendulous racemes up to 4 in. long, with six similar greenish yellow, petal-like sepals, and the carpels crowded on a central cone 1⁄4 in. high. When these carpels mature each develops into a roundish dark purplish blue ‘berry’ 1⁄4 in. wide, carrying a single black seed and borne on a stalk from 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 in. long. This stalk is the elongated base of the carpel. Bot. Mag., t. 9111, 9112.

Native of Central China; discovered by Henry about 1887; introduced by Wilson in 1907. It first flowered in this country with C. J. Lucas at Warnham Court, Horsham, in May 1922. It may need the protection of a wall in many places. In the shape of its leaflets it is distinct from any other hardy climbing shrub except Sinofranchetia, to which it has much resemblance.