Drop sunflower, alias: Insolesole, Artemisia stellata, Vine vegetable, Mullein bean, Mullein, Gurgling vegetable, Tofu vegetable, Purple sunflower, Cochineal vegetable, Gracilaria, Latin name: Basella alba L. Drop sunflower family, Drop sunflower genus of twining annual herbs. Stems up to several meters long, glabrous, fleshy, green or slightly purplish red. Leaf blade ovate or suborbicular, apically acuminate, base slightly cordate or rounded, decurrent into a stalk, entire, abaxial leaf veins slightly raised; fruit globose, 5-6 mm in diam, red to crimson or black, succulent, exserting persistent bracteoles and perianth. Fl. May-Sep, fr. July-Oct.