Codonopsis javanica - Java Bonnet Bellflower

Java Bonnet Bellflower is a climber with stems twining, multi-branched, hairless. Flowers are 1.5-3 cm, white or yellow-green, purple or reddish inside, bell-shaped, divided to the middle. Stigma is 4- or 5-fid; ovary and berry 5-locular. Sepal-cup is free from ovary, divided nearly to base; sepals lanceshaped or ovate, rarely narrowly triangular, 1-2 cm. Flowers are borne in leaf-axils, hairless throughout. Leaves are opposite, rarely alternate, long stalked; blade heart-shaped or heart-shaped-ovate, sometimes becoming trilobed, 2.6-8 x 2-7.5 cm, hairless or below sometimes sparsely hairy, margin toothed or rounded toothed, or rarely entire. Berry is violet or greenish white suffused with red, spherical, 0.7-2.6 cm. Seeds are irregular in shape, surface netveined. Java Bonnet Bellflower is found in Bhutan, NE India, SE Asia, China to Japan. Flowering: May-November.