Cayratia debilis (Baker) Suess.

A slender climber. It is 5 m long. It is slightly woody and keeps growing from year to year. There are branched tendrils opposite the leaves. The leaves are alternate and and have 5 leaflets. The leaf stalks are 4-12 cm long. The leaflets are narrowly oval and 12 cm long by 5.5 cm wide. They are rounded at the base and taper to the tip. The flowers can have one or both sexes. The petals are triangle shaped and greenish-white or yellow. The fruit is a flattened fleshy berry. It is 3 mm long by 5 mm wide. They are white and turn blue-black. There are 2-4 seeds.

Evergreen forest; forest gallery; secondary forests; regrowths; clearings; half-deciduous forest; among tall bushes at the borders of primitive forest; at elevations from 150-1,200 metres.

The leaves are cooked and eaten as a vegetable.

Can be grown by seedlings.