Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophytes > Angiosperms > Eudicots > Asterids > Solanales > Convolvulaceae > Camonea > C. vitifolia

Description: Grape-leaf Wood Rose is large twinning or prostrate herb. The stems are purplish when old, and grow to 4 m long. Leaf blade is circular in outline, 5-18 by 5-16 cm, cordate at the base, palmately 5-7-lobed. Flower-buds narrow-ovoid, acute. Flower tube is funnel shaped -6 cm long, glabrous, bright yellow, paler towards the base. Anthers spirally twisted.

Flowering and Fruiting: November to February

Uses: The juice of the plant is considered cooling and diuretic. An infusion of the plant is drunk as a treatment for high fever. The plant is to treat strangury and urethral discharges. A preparation from the juice is used to ease inflamed eyes. An infusion of the stem is used internally and externally in the treatment of malaria and smallpox. The root is eaten raw as a stomachic.

Cultivation: Wild

References

http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

https://indiabiodiversity.org