Distimake tuberosus

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| image = Starr 070302-5056 Merremia tuberosa.jpg

| genus = Distimake

| species = tuberosus

| authority = (L.) A.R.Simões & Staples

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• Batatas tuberosa (L.) Bojer
• Convolvulus gossypiifolius Kunth
• Convolvulus kentrocaulos Steud. ex Choisy
• Convolvulus macrocarpus Spreng.
• Convolvulus tuberosus (L.) Spreng.
• Ipomoea glaziovii Dammer
• Ipomoea mendesii Welw.
• Ipomoea nuda Peter
• Ipomoea tuberosa L.
• Merremia tuberosa Rendle
• Operculina tuberosa (L.) Meisn.

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|synonyms_ref = {{cite web|url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/tro-8500796|title=The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species}}

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Distimake tuberosus, also known as Spanish arborvine or wood rose, is a vine in the family Convolvulaceae.{{Cite web|url=http://plants.usda.gov/plant-profile?symbol=METU2|title=Plants Profile for Merremia tuberosa (Spanish arborvine)|website=plants.usda.gov|access-date=2019-07-24}} It is native to the Americas, from Florida and Texas to Brazil,{{Cite book|title=Flora of Guatemala|last=Standley|first=Paul Carpenter|last2=Williams|first2=Louis Otho|date=1970|publisher=Field Museum of Natural History|volume=v.24:pt.9:no.1-2 (1970)|location=Chicago, Ill.|pages=74–75}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/8500796?projectid=3|title=Tropicos {{!}} Name - Merremia tuberosa (L.) Rendle|website=www.tropicos.org|access-date=2019-07-24}} although considered by the USDA as introduced to the United States. It is an invasive species in a number of islands in the Indian and Pacific Ocean, such as New Caledonia.{{cite web|url=http://www.hear.org/pier/species/merremia_tuberosa.htm|title=Merremia tuberosa (PIER species information)|date=23 August 2011|publisher=Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER)|access-date=20 August 2012}}{{Cite book|url=http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers12-08/010052239.pdf|title=Les espèces exotiques envahissantes de Nouvelle-Calédonie|last=Hequet|first=Vanessa|year=2009|pages=17|language=fr}}