fruit on clamboring vine in silty calcareous soils of drainage flats at west end of earthen flood control dam on Dry Creek arroyo, shaded in roadside thicket with Prosopis, Koeberlinia, Flourensia.
Interior of the fruiting berry. Seeds in red fleshy pulp. Plant trailing over shrubs on coarse, sandy, alluvial soils of gently sloping coastal plain. Large tuberous root.
This species is endemic to Hawaii island and rare. Elevation of this photo is around 4100ft/1250m. Note this puberulent lower leaf surface (upper surface is glabrous).
Trailing vine growing on stabilized sands in back dunes habitat. A naturalized escape from cultivation found worldwide in tropical regions. Echinate fruit edible, turning yellow with maturity.