Japanese name: ツルアリドオシ（蔓蟻通） Scientific name:Mitchella undulata
[Overview]
An evergreen perennial found in slightly moist places at the edges of woods in the mountains.
The stems branch and creep along the ground, reaching 0.1–1 m in length.
The leaves are simple and opposite, broadly ovate, 0.4–2.5 cm long and 0.3–2 cm wide, thick, and hairless on both surfaces.
The leaf margins are entire or slightly wavy.
The leaves have short petioles.
Two flowers with fused calyx tubes are borne at the stem tip, and the flowers have stalks 0.3–1 cm long.
The flowers are white and funnel-shaped, 0.8 cm across; the tip of the corolla is 4-lobed, and the inside is densely hairy.
The style is 4-lobed; depending on the flower, it either protrudes far out of the flower or does not.
The 4 stamens protrude from the corolla.
The calyx tubes are bell-shaped and fused for 1/2–3/4 of their length from the base.
The fruit is a drupe formed of 2 fused fruits, spherical and 0.8 cm across; it ripens red, and the calyx lobes remain gathered like horns at two points at the tip.
[Notes]
The Japanese name was given because it resembles Arido-oshi but is vine-like.
