Plants

Climbing plants

Dioscorea

Dioskorea

Herbaceous or woody (in the tropics) vines with rhizomes or tubers. Female flowers solitary at the nodes of a spike; male flowers 1-7 in a semi-umbel or cluster at the nodes of a spike, raceme, or panicle.

Climbing plants

Dioscorea caucasica

D. caucasica

Horizontal rhizome up to 30 cm long and 3 cm thick, branched, tuberculate. Stem up to 3 m tall, glabrous in the lower and middle parts; the upper third of it, the lower surface of the leaves, the petioles and the axes o…

Climbing plants

Dioscorea nipponica

D. nipponica

Occurs in sparse broad-leaved and mixed forests, at forest edges and in shrublands of the warm-temperate zone of the Far East, China and Japan. The name derives from the Japanese word "Nippon" (Japan).

Climbing plants

Dioscoreaceae

Dioscoreaceae

Perennial herbaceous vine with tuberous-thickened vertical roots and a thin, branched, knobby stem climbing shrubs and trees to a height of up to 2 m.

Climbing plants

Dolichos, or hyacinth beans, or climbing lilac

Dolichos

Large vines reaching 4–5 m in height, stem herbaceous, a characteristic is twining the support counterclockwise. Leaves large, heart-shaped, trifoliate, similar to bean and pea leaves, green, slightly purple or purple.

Climbing plants

Dunav grape

Vitis vinifera L. Dunav

Dunav grape – a hybrid of the varieties (Balkan x Ribi mehur) x Cardinal, an early-ripening table grape. Developed in Bulgaria.