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Phytolacca icosandra - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Parque Florestal de Monsanto, Lisbon, Portugal; 5/2010 © Jörn Germer

Phytolacca icosandra - Inflorescence, close-up - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence, close-up; Parque Florestal de Monsanto, Lisbon, Portugal; 5/2010 © Jörn Germer

Phytolacca icosandra - Infructescence - Click to enlarge!

Infructescence; Parque Florestal de Monsanto, Lisbon, Portugal; 5/2010 © Jörn Germer

Phytolacca icosandra - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Parque Florestal de Monsanto, Lisbon, Portugal; 5/2010 © Jörn Germer

Phytolacca icosandra - Leaf insertion - Click to enlarge!

Leaf insertion; Parque Florestal de Monsanto, Lisbon, Portugal; 5/2010 © Jörn Germer

Phytolacca icosandra - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Parque Florestal de Monsanto, Lisbon, Portugal; 5/2010 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 1313
Date of entry: 22.05.2010
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Tropical pokeweed

German: Kermesbeere

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Caryophyllales (114)

        Family: Phytolaccaceae (4)(family description)

          Genus: Phytolacca (4)

            Epithet: icosandra L. (1)

icosandra => twenty stamens (men) - in Greek, ‘eikosi’ stands for twenty and ‘andres’ means men

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habit: herb

Flower colour: pink, white

External links

Check for Phytolacca icosandra at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

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