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Venezuelan treebine

Cissus rotundifolia

Also called Arabian Wax Cissus

Venezuelan treebine
Photo: Franz Xaver, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Vitaceae (Grape family)
Grows as
Climber, Perennial
Native range
Eritrea to S. Africa, Mascarenes, Arabian Pen.
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Cissus rotundifolia is a perennial, evergreen climber in the Vitaceae family.

How to grow it

Cissus rotundifolia has been used in traditional medicine to treat burns, skin diseases, liver and gastrointestinal (GI) disorders.

Where it grows

The species is native to eastern Africa and the Middle East, and has been introduced to India, Hawaii, and the Seychelles.

Other Cissus plants

Endeavour River Vine · Grape Ivy · Cissus anisophylla · Ivy Grape · Rex Begonia Vine · Veldt-grape · Cissus · Cissus subaphylla · Cissus tiliacea · Sorrelvine · Seasonvine · Treebine

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cissus rotundifolia 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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