silk vine

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silk vine - deciduous climber for arches and fences having ill-scented but interesting flowers and poisonous yellow fruits; cultivated for its dark shining foliage; southeastern Europe to Asia Minor

Periploca graeca

vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface

genus Periploca, Periploca - genus of woody vines of warm regions of the Old World

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sepium, commonly termed Chinese silk vine and also, in pinyin, xiangjiapi or gangliupi, has been implicated in two Canadian cases as likely having been subst ituted for eleuthero/'Siberian ginseng': one case was associated with neonatallmaternal androgenization, and the other with interference with digoxin assay, producing apparently elevated digoxin levels (D.