Ceropegia distincta N.E.Br.

Rootstock producing a cluster of fibrous to fleshy roots. Stem subsucculent, twining, up to 2 m or more tall, glabrous. Leaves somewhat fleshy, drying thin; petiole 10-15 mm long; blade ± oblong to ovate-lanceolate, cuspidate, up to 75 x 50 mm. Flowers 1-2(-few), pedunculate; peduncle up to 35 mm long, glabrous; pedicels 8-16 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, up to 12 mm long. Corolla up to 50 mm long; tube 25-30 mm long, with slightly globose base and curved upward nearly at right angles, cylindric and expanding to 15-20 mm at mouth, glabrous outside, hairy at base and throat within; lobes broadly deltoid-ovate at base. Corona cupular, extending into 5 acutely bifid, ciliate outer lobes equal in height to staminal column; inner lobes incumbent-erect, linear-spathulate, about 3 mm long, obtuse.

It is a tropical plant. It is best in a humus-rich soil. It needs a protected, sunny position. It is damaged by frost or drought.

The tuber is washed, scraped clean and eaten raw or cooked. It can be boiled or roasted.

Plants can be grown by seed, cuttings or division of the tubers.