Chinese Honeysuckle
Combretum indicum, also known as the Rangoon creeper or Chinese honeysuckle, is a vine with red flower clusters and native to tropical Asia. It is not closely related to the true honeysuckle species Lonicera tragophylla which is also called the Chinese honeysuckle.Wikipedia
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Edible : Fruit, Seeds, Leaves, Stems A scrambling shrub or vine. The stem is strong and woody. It branches freely. It can climb to 20 m high. The plant is erect and shrub like when young. The twigs have soft brown hairs when young. The leaves are opposite and oblong. They have heart shaped bases....
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Combretum indicumis native to tropical Asia. There is still doubt whether it is indigenous to East Africa or was introduced there long ago. It is nowadays widely cultivated throughout the tropics and subtropics, mainly as an ornamental plant, and has become naturalized in many localities. The...
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C. indicumis a deciduous climbing plant native to Asia and possibly tropical Africa where it is abundant, but the species is widely cultivated in the Neotropics (Acevedo-Rodriguez, 2005;USDA-ARS, 2015). It is a “rampant grower” (Brown and Knox, 2013) and is listed in the Global Compendium of...