Neonotonia wightii

Botanical Description

Neonotonia wightii is a herbaceous perennial climbing plant with a strong taproot and trailing, slender, well branched, stems 60 - 450cm long[ 418 Title Ecocrop Publication Author Website http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/home Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Basic information on a wide range of useful plants, plus details of environmental needs where available. ]. The stems scramble over the ground, or twine into other plants for support[ 305 Title Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk Publication Author Website http://www.hear.org/pier/scientificnames/index.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A very good website detailing weed species that have been introduced into the Pacific Islands. ]. The plant is said to be harvested from the wild for local use as a food. It is grown as a ground cover and green manure crop for restoring worn out soils.