Malabar nightshade

noun

variants or Malabar spinach

: a plant of the genus Basella

especially : an Asiatic climbing plant (B. alba) with fleshy shining leaves and small white racemose flowers that is grown in the tropics as a potherb and in temperate regions as an ornamental vine

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