Botanical Name : Smilax lanceolata Family : Smilacaceae Gender :
Smilax Species : S. laurifolia Division : Magnoliophyta Class :
Liliopsida Order : Liliales *Parillax laurifolia (L.) Raf.
*Smilax alba Pursh *Smilax hastata var. lanceolata (L.) Pursh
*Smilax lanceolata L. *Smilax laurifolia var. bupleurifolia
A.DC. *Smilax reticulata Std. Common Name :Red China Root
Habitat : Smilax lanceolata is native to South-eastern N.
America – New Jersey to Florida and Texas.It grows on swamps and
low ground. Moist woods and thickets. Bays, bogs, pocosins,
swamp margins, marshy banks. Smilax laurifolia is an evergreen
Climber growing to 6 m (19ft 8in). It is a vine that forms
extensive colonies woody, with rhizomes irregularly branched,
tuberous. Stems perennial cylindrical reaching 5 + m in length
and 15 mm in diameter, dark spines, flat 12 mm rigid. The leaves
are evergreen, ± evenly arranged, with petiole 0.5-1.5 cm, green
undersides, dried light brown to brownish green, oblong-
elliptic, lance-elliptic, or sometimes l