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Ceropegia woodii
Also called Rosary Vine, String Of Hearts
Hearts entangled (Ceropegia woodii) is a trailing succulent vine from southern Africa with heart-shaped leaves and tubers along its stems. It is grown mainly as a hanging-basket houseplant and needs bright but filtered light and very sharp drainage.
Ceropegia woodii is a flowering plant in the dogbane family Apocynaceae, native to South Africa, Eswatini and Zimbabwe. It is sometimes treated as a subspecies of the related Ceropegia linearis, as C. linearis subsp. woodii. Common names include chain of hearts, collar of hearts, string of hearts, rosary vine, hearts-on-a-string, and sweetheart vine.
Ceropegia woodii is tender, and in temperate regions it is a very popular houseplant often grown in hanging baskets so the long trailing branches may hang down with their leaves spaced out like a row of large beads. Several cultivars have been selected, some with variegated leaves. It requires excellent drainage, should be watered only when dry, and should never stand in water. Excess water should be removed from plant saucer after watering. It can be grown outdoors only in subtropical and tropical areas having a minimum temperature of 15 °C (59 °F). It typically requires shady conditions consisting of 3–4 hours of indirect sunlight.
This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit (confirmed 2017).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ceropegia woodii 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.
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.
