• Scientific Name: Antigonon leptopus Hook. & Arn.
• Ref: Bot. Beechey Voy.:308. 1838
• Synonyms: Antigonon cordatum M.Martens & Galeotti; A. platypus Hook. & Arn.; Corculum leptopus Stuntz
• English Common Name: Mexican creeper, coral vine, Coralita, bee bush, San Miguelito vine
• Chinese Common Name: 珊瑚藤 shānhú∙téng
• Japanese Common Name: アサヒカズラ [朝日葛] asahikazura, ニトベカズラ [新渡戸葛] nitobekazura
• Family: Polygonaceae
• Genus: Antigonon
• Distribution: native to Mexico and C. America, cultivated widely as an ornamental in warmer parts of the world and is grown extensively in S. America
• Photo: Guangxi Botanical Garden of Medicinal Plants, Guangxi

Plants herbaceous or base some-times woody. Stems climbing or sprawling by tendrils, branched, angular, to 15 m, sparsely to densely brownish- or reddish-pubescent or glabrous. Leaves: ocrea 0.2-2 mm; petiole often winged distally, 1-2.5(-5) cm, glabrate or pubescent; blade 5-14 × (2-)4-10 cm, base usually cordate, margins ciliate, apex acute to acuminate, glabrous or pubescent, especially on veins. Inflorescences 4-20 cm, axes puberulent to pilose; peduncle angular, 1-5 cm, puberulent to pilose. Pedicels articulated proximally, 3-5(-10) mm, glabrous or pubescent. Flowers: tepals ovate to elliptic, 4-8 × 2-6 mm, 8-20 × 4-15 mm in fruit, margins entire, apex acute. Achenes 8-12 × 4-7 mm, shiny. 2n = 14, 40, 42-44, 48. (FNA Vol. 5)