Carolina Snailseed
Cocculus carolinus
Characteristics
- Foliage - Alternating, with highly variable lobes, very hirsute on the undersurfaces.
- Stem structures - Hirsute.
- Fruit - Green when young, red when mature,
Grows in dense thickets on shady borders and in deep shade.
Alternating leaves.
Leaf upper surface and petiole.
Leaf underside and petiole.
Foliage showing the variable leaf shape. The shape varies on the same plant.
Leaf underside covered by dense hairs.
Stem nodes and 2 petioles.
Immature fruit, peduncle and stem with all hirsute but the fruit.
Cluster of mature fruit. Note variable leaf shape.
Leaf petiole and adjacent peduncle.
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