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A climbing vine

19 years ago

I found this climbing in my honeysuckle tree... it's about 12' tall now and has definite round curled tendrils like a grape vine. The flowers looked like they would form a round bunch of berries, but they all dried up and fell off and don't appear to have produced berries. Each leaf had its own panicle of flowers coming out where it joined the stem. Anyone know what it is?

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carol23_gw
19 years ago
Smilax herbacea, I believe.

Here is a link that might be useful: Smilax herbacea
janet_e
19 years ago
Yes, Smilax herbacea (carrion vine). Plants have either all male flowers or all female flowers. Since this plant didn't produce berries, it's probably male.
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northspruce
Original Author
19 years ago
Yes, that's it, thanks so much! You ladies are very knowledgeable - it had us stumped at the Far North forum - but I guess I'm at the edge of its range so it's not that common.
northspruce
Original Author
19 years ago
Oh yeah I meant to mention I don't remember it smelling bad!! One article was pretty clear that it smelled like dead rats. LOL There were flies on the flowers so I should have suspected something.

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