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Clematicissus angustissima

Clematicissus angustissima
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0

Clematicissus angustissima is a deciduous climbing vine from Western Australia, growing from tubers, with fleshy purplish-black berries. It is a species, not a commonly grown houseplant, and it is best suited to a warm, dry climate with a dormant rest period.

Family
Vitaceae (Grape family)
Grows as
Climber
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly during the growing season and let the soil dry out between waterings, then keep dry while dormant.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gritty mix.
Temperature
18–32 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Western Australia (Irwin)
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Clematicissus angustissima is a vine in the Vitaceae family, endemic to the Geraldton area of Western Australia.

The species was first described as Vitis angustissima in 1859 by Ferdinand von Mueller, from a specimen collected by Oldfield on the Murchison River. In 1887Jules Planchon reassigned it to his newly described genus, Clematicissus, with Clematicussus angustissima being the type species.

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Pepper Vine · Clematicissus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Clematicissus angustissima 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.

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