Phytolacca rivinoides

Botanical Description

Phytolacca rivinoides is a scrambling or climbing perennial plant that becomes woody at the base. It sends out shoots up to 5 metres long[ 434 Title Flora of Peru Publication Author Macbride. J.F. Publisher Field Museum of Natural History Year 1936 ISBN Description An excellent attempt at a Flora of Peru, though it is clear that many of the plants were imperfectly known at that time and so information on them was sketchy. Available for download from the Internet. ]. It is planted close to the villages by the Yanomami Indians of the Amazon so that it is easily available for use as a medicinal plant[ 317 Title Mansfeld's Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Plants Publication Author Website http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:4292127278597336 Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Terse details of a huge range of useful plants. ]. The plant is rather showy[ 331 Title Flora of Guatemala Publication Author Standley P.C. & J. A. Steyermark Website http://www.archive.org/ Publisher Year 1946 - 1976 ISBN Description A superb reference, though somewhat dated. Gives lots of plant uses as well as information on plant habit and habitat. The entire flora (13 volumes) can now be downloaded from http://www.archive.org/ ], and is worthy of being grown as an ornamental[ 356 Title The Useful and Ornamental Plants of Trinidad and Tobago. Publication Author Williams. R. O. & Williams. R. O. Jnr. Publisher Self Published in Trinidad and Tobago. Year 1951 ISBN Description Terse details of a wide range of plants both native and introduced to Trinidad and Tobago. Gives a brief description of the plant and some of its local uses. ].