ivy family


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Noun1.ivy family - mostly tropical trees and shrubs and lianas: genera Panax and Hederaivy family - mostly tropical trees and shrubs and lianas: genera Panax and Hedera
rosid dicot family - a family of dicotyledonous plants
genus Aralia - type genus of Araliaceae; large widely distributed genus of shrubs and trees and vines: spikenard; Hercules'-club
genus Hedera, Hedera - Old World woody vines
genus Meryta, Meryta - small to medium evergreen dioecious trees of oceanic climates: puka
genus Panax, Panax - perennial herbs of eastern North America and Asia having aromatic tuberous roots: ginseng
genus Schefflera, Schefflera - large genus of shrubby and climbing tropical plants having showy digitately compound foliage
order Umbellales, Umbellales - plants having umbels or corymbs of uniovulate flowers; includes the Umbelliferae (chiefly herbs) and Cornaceae (chiefly trees or shrubs)
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American ginseng, a herbaceous perennial plant in the ivy family, may have benefits in aging, central nervous system disorders and neurodegenerative diseases.
American ginseng (Panax quinque-folium) is a perennial herbaceous plant in the ivy family. It is similar to the Asian species (Panax ginseng), which is reported to have been first discovered in the Manchurian Mountains of China more than 5,000 years ago.