Flagellaria indica is a climbing plant found in many of the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World, India

India

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, South East Asia, Polynesia

Polynesia

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 and Australia

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A strong climber often up to 15 metres tall, with thick cane like stems exceeding 15 mm in diameter. Leaves without hairs, 10 to 40 cm long, and 5 to 20 mm wide. A coiled apex of the leaf forms the holding part of the climbing plant. Fragrant white flowers form in panicle

Panicle

A panicle is a compound raceme, a loose, much-branched indeterminate inflorescence with pedicellate flowers attached along the secondary branches; in other words, a branched cluster of flowers in which the branches are racemes....

s, 10 to 25 cm long. The fruit is a non edible greenish red drupe

Drupe

In botany, a drupe is a fruit in which an outer fleshy part surrounds a shell of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. These fruits develop from a single carpel, and mostly from flowers with superior ovaries...

, 5 mm in diameter, usually with only one seed.

Because of the wide distribution, there are many common local names. Such as Whip Vine, Supplejack, False Rattan, Bush Cane, and many others.