Calystegia sepium
(L.) R. Br.
White Bindweed, Large Bindweed, Hedge Bindweed
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Summary
Source: WikipediaCalystegia sepium (Rutland beauty, bugle vine, heavenly trumpets, bellbind, granny-pop-out-of-bed and many others) is a species of flowering plant in the family Convolvulaceae. It has a subcosmopolitan distribution throughout temperate regions of the North and South hemispheres.
Description
A slender climber. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 1-4 m high. It has both underground stems or rhizomes and runners or stolons. It climbs over supports. The stems are smooth and twining. They twine in an anticlockwise direction. The leaves are 5-15 cm long and 2-4 cm wide. They are oval or triangle shaped or like an arrowhead. They are light green. The leaf stalks are almost free of hairs. The flowers are 5-8 cm long and about 4 cm across. They are white or pink and funnel shaped. They occur singly in the axils of leaves. They are on long stalks. The flowers open during the day and close at night. The fruit is a capsule about 1 cm across.
Edible Uses
Edible Parts: Leaves Root Shoots Edible Uses: Stalks and root - cooked. Washed and steamed. A pleasant sweet taste. Rich in starch and sugars, it is very nutritious. It should not be eaten regularly, however, due to its possible purgative effect. Young shoots - cooked. Some caution is advised since they are possibly purgative.
Traditional Uses
The root is washed and steamed, or sun-dried, then broken into fragments. It is cooked and eaten with rice or ground into a meal and steamed in the form of cakes. The young shoots are eaten.
Medicinal Uses
Cholagogue Demulcent Diuretic Febrifuge Poultice Purgative The root is demulcent, diuretic, febrifuge, poultice and strongly purgative. Use of the root is believed to increase the flow of bile.
Known Hazards
The root and young shoots may produce purgative effects with regular consumption.
Distribution
It is a temperate plant. It grows in shady gullies and along streams. It grows in coastal salt-marshes and reed swamps. Tasmania Herbarium. In Yunnan.
Where It Grows
Argentina, Asia, Australia*, Britain, Central Asia, Chile, China, Easter Island, Europe, France, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mediterranean, Mongolia, Portugal, Russia, Sicily, Slovenia, South America, Spain, Tajikistan, Tasmania*, Turkey, Türkiye,
Cultivation
It can be grown by seed or stem cuttings.
Propagation
Seed - sow spring in a cold frame in a free draining compost and only just cover. The seed usually germinates in 1 - 3 months at 15°c. When they are large enough to handle, prick the seedlings out into individual pots and grow them on in a cold frame for at least their first winter. Plant them out into their permanent positions in late spring or early summer, after the last expected frosts. Division in early spring whilst dormant.
Other Uses
String The stems are very flexible and can be used as an emergency string for tying. It is fairly strong but not very long-lasting. Special Uses
Other Information
It is cultivated.
Notes
There are 25 Calystegia species.
Synonyms
Also Known As
Bellvine, Greater Bindweed, Navadni plotni slak
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