Name: Cayratia carnosa.
Region: east Asia, southern China, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, Pacific.
Habitat: thickets, open forests; elevations up to 400 metres; forests on hillsides or by streams, on rocks; at elevations from 500 to 1000 metres in southwest China.
Use: medicine; food, young leaves, boiled as vegetable; abundant sap flows from the cut stem to relieve thirst.
BotanyDeciduous climbing shrub; climbing by attaching themselves by means of tendrils that end in adhesive disks.
Stem: 2 to 20 metres long.
Root: tuberous rootstock.