Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Ampelozizyphus

Ampelozizyphus is a small genus of three climbing or scrambling shrubs from tropical South America, in the buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae). It is rarely grown as an ornamental, so the care notes below describe a tropical climber of this type.

Family
Rhamnaceae (Rhamn family)
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Water when the top few centimetres of soil dry out, and keep the mix slightly moist during the growing season.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich mix with some perlite or bark.
Temperature
18–29 °C; protect below 10 °C

About

Ampelozizyphus is a genus of plants in the family Rhamnaceae. It includes three species native to tropical South America:

Ampelozizyphus amazonicus Ducke, which is known from Amazonian Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Brazil

Other Ampelozizyphus plants

Ampelozizyphus amazonicus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ampelozizyphus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…