Cardiospermum grandiflorum Swartz.

Spice Flower Fruits Seeds

Family: SAPINDACEAE

Genus: Cardiospermum

Spanish common name: Barba de viejo. Calanchoe. Espinazo del diablo. Tejina.

Province distribution: Balearic Islands.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Neotropical

Uses and properties: Medicinal.

Life-forms: Phanerophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Garden plants. From America. Naturalizated specie.

Characteristics: A climbing plant (up to 10 m. in length), very easy to recognize by its set of grouped an inflated fruits. Leaves are composite with folioles rhombic and lobulate, and the terminal foliole is larger than the others. Flowers are creamy-white and are grouped at the end of a long peduncle.