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A rapid grower, it is of easy cultivation succeeding in most soils that are well drained, avoiding acid soils in the wild. A climbing plant, attaching itself to other plants by means of tendrils. Plants can be easily encouraged by scattering ripe seed at the base of hedgerows. Plants in the north of their range are monoecious, but those growing in the south are dioecious. Where necessary, male and female plants must be grown if seed is required.

Edible Parts: Leaves Shoots Edible Uses: One report says that the young shoots are edible, though caution is advised[K]. See the notes above on toxicity. The starch of the root is a famine food for extending bread flour after removing the acrid element. The young shoots are eaten. Caution: It is probably very poisonous [1b].

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