| Family Name | Rubiaceae |
| Scientific name | Paederia scandens |
| Common name | Skunkvine, Stinkvine, Chinese Fever Vine |
| Growth habit | Vine-like shrub. |
| Leaf | Born in pair, usually wrinkled or broken, the complete one is broadly ovate or lanceolate after flattened, apex acute, base cuneate, rounded or shallowly cordate, green and brown colored, both sides without pubescent or subglabrous. |
| Flower | Cymes or axillary, the former with a multi-leaf, latter evacuation spend less, spend lavender. Flowering between June and July. |
| Fruit | Flat round berries, shiny when ripe, yellowish-brown. Matured from October to December. |
| More to learn | In accordance with the custom of some places in Hainan, on 1st July, every household will eat Paederia scandens cake. Hainanese also use Paederia scandens to make snacks such as Paederia scandens rice balls and Paederia scandens rice noodles, Hainanese use Paederia scandens cake as tonic of women postpartum, postoperative patients and physical weakness. |
| Properties | Sweet and sour tasting, flat. Heart, liver, spleen, and kidney meridians. Relieves rheumatic pains, diuretic, eliminates indigestion and phlegm, antitussive, relieve pain. |
| Treats | Arthralgia due to wind-dampness; dyspeptic abdominal distention; diarrhoea; thermic fever; choleplania; hepatitis; hepatosplenomegaly; cough; crewels; acute appendicitis; inflammatory process of tissue of unknown origin; wet feet swollen rotten; burn and scald; eczema; dermatitis; traumatic injury; bite of snake, flood dragon, scorpion and sting. |
| Reference | General information on Paederia scandens General information on Paederia scandens Information on Paederia scandens cake Gallery on Paederia scandens in different places Medical information on Paederia scandens |