Queen coralbead is native to Assam, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Cook Is., East Himalaya, Hainan, Hawaii, Japan, Jawa, Korea, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Nepal, Philippines, Pitcairn Is., Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tubuai Is., Vietnam. It is harvested from the wild for local use as food, medicine and a source of materials. Its bleached tendrils are used as an ornamental infill in basket making. The leaves are sometimes cooked for emergency food.

Found in sides of streams, sparse forests, bushes, village sides and forest edges. Easily cultivated in an ordinary garden soil, it prefers a well-drained moisture retentive fertile soil in full sun or semi-shade. This species is hardy to about -10 °C.

• Stems - slender, grooved, blackish, that grows up from 2 m up to 3.5 m tall.

• Leaves - 2.5 to 12 cm long, come in variable shapes from lanceolate to broad ovate and sometimes three-lobed with acute (pointed) apex and rounded to cordate base. Leaf blade is light green to bluish green, glaucous (waxy, greyish blue).

• Flowers - tiny and monoecious, creamy yellowish to white, borne in clusters (axillary panicles).

• Fruits - grape-like clusters, maturing to blue or black, each fruit is no more than 1 cm big.

• Propagated by seeds or saplings.

• Seeds are planted directly or sown first. Planting distance in the field is 50 cm.

By seeds - sow stored seed as soon as possible in a greenhouse. When they are large enough to handle, prick the seedlings out into individual pots and grow them on in the greenhouse.

By root cuttings.

By cutting of half-riped wood and by di

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