MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC CROPS (2+1)

Description of the plant

• It is herbaceous climbing perennial, growing between 3.5 to 6m in length, but usually trained at 1.5m above ground level.
  
• The vines are long, weak- stemmed with tuberous roots that support themselves by means of cirrhosed tips.
  
• The leaves are ovate, lanceolate, acuminate, the tips spirally twisted to serve as tendrils.
  
• The flowers are large, solitary.
  
• In the bud stage, the petals hang down over the ovary and on maturity, they assume an erect position, leaving the ovary with its stigma exposed at right angles.