Thursday, February 14, 2013

Rivina humilis, weed like with bright red berries


Considered a pest since it can crowd out other plants, this plant attracts birds to eat its berries and disperse it in some other places. In fact I saw an untamed brown pigeon one day in our family house in Sum-ag Bacolod City near this plant which has created a dense thicket!

Strangely though it is a common plant, it is not listed in Dr. Stuart's Xchange database for medicinal plants.






Plant Rivina humilis
Full namePlantae| Angiosperms |Eudicots | Order: Caryophyllales| Family: Phytolaccaceae|Genus: Rivina| Species: R. humilis
Common namePigeonberry, Rouge Plant, Baby Peppers, Bloodberry, and Coralito
LocationBacolod City
PhotographersSusan Estrope Dicker(1st photo), Dr. Ernesto Adorio(2nd photo)
CameraPansonic S3(1st photo), Olympus VG110(2nd photo)
AcknowledgmentDinah Canada (scientific name identification)
ReferencesWikipedia
AlbumsFacebook (E.P. Adorio)

First photo (c), 2013 by SED of Australia.

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