Английская Википедия:Chiococca alba
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Chiococca alba is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family (Rubiaceae) native to Florida and the extreme southern tip of Texas in the United States,[1] Bermuda,[2] Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Galápagos, and tropical South America. Common names include David's milkberry, West Indian milkberry, cahinca[3] and West Indian snowberry.[4] The specific epithet, alba, means "white" in Latin and refers to the color of its fruits.[5]
Description
West Indian milkberry is an evergreen[3] woody vine or scrambling shrub that often grows on other vegetation and may reach a height of Шаблон:Convert.[4] The opposite, simple leaves are Шаблон:Convert long and may be elliptic to ovate or broadly lanceolate in shape. Yellow, bell-shaped flowers up to Шаблон:Convert in length appear throughout the year[6] on racemes or panicles of six of to eight.[7] The fruit is a white drupe Шаблон:Convert in diameter[6] that generally contains two dark brown seeds.[4]
Taxonomy
Lonicera alba was described in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus.[8] It was moved to Chiococca in 1893 by A. S. Hitchcock,[9] and is considered the type species of that genus.[10] Stewardson Brown described the Bermuda population of the plant as a new species, C. bermudiana, in 1909 due to its lighter green and larger leaves, larger berries, and wider and longer pedicels. Many authorities consider C. bermudiana a synonym of C. alba.[2]
Uses
Chiococca alba is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its dark green, evergreen foliage and white drupes. It is used in espalier and grown on trellises.[7] The roots have several uses in herbal medicine, including as a laxative, diuretic, emetic, and antidiarrhoeal.[4] The plant was sold commercially in Europe and the United States for those purposes at one time.[11]
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