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This was a vine woven along a branch of a non-cultivated Pyrus calleryana. It had black/purple clustered berries and parallel veined heart-like shaped leaves. Found in Old Fort Park in Rutherford County of Murfreesboro, TN.
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Small vine with simple arrow shaped leaves with prickles along the margins and mid-vein of leaf.
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Small vine with simple arrow shaped leaves with prickles along the margins and mid-vein of leaf.
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Low growing vine covered with spinose structures (prickles?) The leaves are heavily lobed, very characteristic shape of S. bona-nox which can be difficult to confuse with other members of the Smilax genus. Fruits absent
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This plant is a rhizomatous vine with climbing, branching stems that grow up to 8 meters long. Many of the branches are covered in prickles up to 9 millimeters long. The evergreen leaves are pale green, sometimes with white blotches, and are variable in shape. The inflorescence is an umbel of up to 15 or more pale green flowers. The fruit is a black berry just under a centimeter in length. It contains one seed. The plant reproduces by seed and by sprouting from its rhizome.
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This plant is a rhizomatous vine with climbing, branching stems that grow up to 8 meters long. Many of the branches are covered in prickles up to 9 millimeters long. The evergreen leaves are pale green, sometimes with white blotches, and are variable in shape. The inflorescence is an umbel of up to 15 or more pale green flowers. The fruit is a black berry just under a centimeter in length. It contains one seed. The plant reproduces by seed and by sprouting from its rhizome.
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This plant is a rhizomatous vine with climbing, branching stems that grow up to 8 meters long. Many of the branches are covered in prickles up to 9 millimeters long. The evergreen leaves are pale green, sometimes with white blotches, and are variable in shape. The inflorescence is an umbel of up to 15 or more pale green flowers. The fruit is a black berry just under a centimeter in length. It contains one seed. The plant reproduces by seed and by sprouting from its rhizome.
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This plant is a rhizomatous vine with climbing, branching stems that grow up to 8 meters long. Many of the branches are covered in prickles up to 9 millimeters long. The evergreen leaves are pale green, sometimes with white blotches, and are variable in shape. The inflorescence is an umbel of up to 15 or more pale green flowers. The fruit is a black berry just under a centimeter in length. It contains one seed. The plant reproduces by seed and by sprouting from its rhizome.
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State - Tennessee County - Rutherford Identification - Smilax bona-nox Location - Flat Rock Cedar Glades along right side of main trail Description - Woody vine covered in prickles, dark green evergreen leaves with white blotches, distinctively lobed leaves a heart shape with narrow tip Associated Species - Carya ovata, Rhus copallina, Toxicodendron radicans, Quercus marilandica Date - 19 Oct 2014 Collector Name - Lauren S Hanberry Collection number - 45
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SRK530 Most abundant plant in forested area; climbing up trees; clusters of 15 - 30 black fruit. Personal residence... of parents.
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SRK1250 Marion Samson Park Collected with Elizabeth Rosenauer (before she became my wife!)
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SRK1250 Marion Samson Park Collected with Elizabeth Rosenauer (before she became my wife!)
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SRK1250 Marion Samson Park Collected with Elizabeth Rosenauer (before she became my wife!)
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Changed common name from: Zarzaparrilla See: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zarzaparrilla
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Changed common name from: Zarzaparrilla See: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zarzaparrilla
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Saw Greenbrier
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