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Cyclea barbata is a climbing liana in the moonseed family (Menispermaceae) from wet tropical forests of South and Southeast Asia. It is grown mainly as a wild or medicinal plant and needs warm, humid, shaded conditions with a support to climb.
Cyclea barbata is a species of flowering plants in the family Menispermaceae.
It is native to the Andaman Islands, Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, southeast China, the Eastern Himalayas, Hainan, Java, Laos, the Lesser Sunda Islands, Myanmar, the Nicobar Islands, South China Sea, Sumatra, Thailand, and Vietnam.
It is used as a medicinal plant in Java to treat a variety of ailments including stomach ache and fever. Prepartions include making green grass jelly from the leaves, or an infusion from the roots.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cyclea barbata 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.
