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A flea-beetle (Phenrica guerini), a leaf-mining moth (Epipagis cambogialis), and a stem-wilter, (Catorhintha schaffneri), feed on the leaves.[5]Although Pereskia aculeata is edible and of high nutrition quality, being an alternative to conventional food, this plant is a declared weed in South Africa where it does extensive damage to forest areas by smothering indigenous trees.
Pseuderanthemum maculatum, commonly known as yellow-vein eranthemum or golden pseuderanthemum, is a species of evergreen shrub in the family Acanthaceae.It is native to the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, and has been introduced to other islands of Oceania and to some parts of Southeast Asia, Africa, Central America and South America.
Entada phaseoloides, commonly known in English as the matchbox bean or St. Thomas' bean, is a large twining vine or liana in the pea and bean family Fabaceae, native to a broad area of Asia-Pacific, from China to northern Australia and the southwestern Pacific.
Grazing on phragmites by large-bodied domestic herbivores, such as cows, horses, sheep, and goats, can effectively control the plant and provide a reciprocal positive benefit for humans by generating meat, milk, leather, and wool etc. [12]
Cassytha filiformis is a twining vine with yellow or orange to pale green hollow stems with a length between 3–8 metres long. The stems attach to host plants by growing shoots from the base of its root, they have haustoria that fold inside the hosts' phloem and xylem membranes to absorb water and nutrients for a long time until they dry up and die.
Eupatorium capillifolium, or dog fennel (also written "dogfennel"), is a North American perennial herbaceous plant in the family Asteraceae, native to the eastern and south-central United States. [3] It is generally between 50 cm and 2 meters tall with several stems that fork from a substantial base. [ 4 ]
Alocasia sanderiana is also known as the kris plant because of the resemblance of its leaf edges to the wavy blade of the kalis sword (also known as kris or keris). It is a tropical perennial, with upright leaves, usually growing to a height of 2 ft (60 cm) long. [2] It usually has a single to a few leaves, interspersed with papery cataphylls ...
O. tubaeforme is an upright shrub up to 2 m [1] or 3 m [2] tall. Its elliptical, glossy leaves are 10 cm by 20 cm with a 2 cm petiole and arranged opposite each other on the stem. [3]