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.
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| Plant | Rivina humilis |
| Full name | Plantae| Angiosperms |Eudicots | Order: Caryophyllales| Family: Phytolaccaceae|Genus: Rivina| Species: R. humilis |
| Common name | Pigeonberry, Rouge Plant, Baby Peppers, Bloodberry, and Coralito |
| Location | Bacolod City |
| Photographers | Susan Estrope Dicker(1st photo), Dr. Ernesto Adorio(2nd photo) |
| Camera | Pansonic S3(1st photo), Olympus VG110(2nd photo) |
| Acknowledgment | Dinah Canada (scientific name identification) |
| References | Wikipedia |
| Albums | Facebook (E.P. Adorio) |
First photo (c), 2013 by SED of Australia.
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