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Slender Water Vine

Causonis trifolia

Also called Native Grape

Slender Water Vine
Photo: Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0
Family
Vitaceae (Grape family)
Grows as
Shrub, Climber
Native range
Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to W. Pacific
Climate
wet tropical

About

Causonis trifolia commonly known as bush grape, fox-grape, three-leaved wild vine or threeleaf cayratia is a species of plant native to regions from India, through Southeast Asia to Australia and the western Pacific Ocean. It is a vine with a stem diameter up to 7 cm (2.8 in), trifoliate leaves and blackish berries. Its leaves contain several flavonoids, such as cyanidin and delphinidin. Hydrocyanic acid is present in the stem, leaves and roots.

Where it grows

Causonis trifolia is native to these areas (as defined in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions):

Other Causonis plants

Causonis · Causonis clematidea · Causonis eurynema

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Causonis trifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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