''Stauntonia coriacea'', commonly known as blue china vine, is an evergreen

liana A liana is a long- stemmed, woody vine that is rooted in the soil at ground level and uses trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the canopy in search of direct sunlight. The word ''liana'' does not refer to a ta ...

indigenous to temperate east Asia. The leaves have a waxy texture. It produces white

monoecious Monoecy (; adj. monoecious ) is a sexual system in seed plants where separate male and female cones or flowers are present on the same plant. It is a monomorphic sexual system alongside gynomonoecy, andromonoecy and trimonoecy. Monoecy is conne ...

flowers followed by pink-colored sausage-shaped fruits with white-colored pulp. The fruits are, technically, berries. They ripen and drop during autumn. The fruits are edible, but are not commonly used as food. It is often grown as an ornamental plant.

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coriacea Plants described in 2012 {{Ranunculales-stub