Cyphostemma schlechteri (Gilg & M.Brandt) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.

Species

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Characteristics

A herb that lies along the ground. It is succulent and keeps growing from year to year. It grows 1 m high. The leaves have 3-5 leaflets spread out like fingers on a hand. The leaflet blades are fleshy and 12 cm long by 3-5 cm wide. The side leaflets are smaller. There are a few coarse teeth along the edge. The flower petals are greenish-yellow with purple tips. The fruit are orange to red and 1.4 cm long by 0.8 cm wide. They are oval. There is one seed 7 mm long by 4 mm wide.
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Prostrate herb or scrambler, glaucous, tendrils present. Leaves digitately 3-5-foliolate, sessile or subsessile, leaflets linear-lanceolate to narrowly oblong-obovate, margin sparsely but coarsely serrate. Flowers cream.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a subtropical plant. It grows on rocky or sandy soils. It grows between 200-1,300 m above sea level in South Africa.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture 5-8
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

Caution: The fruit leave a bitter taste and may contain poisons. It presumably has oxalates.
Uses poison
Edible fruits
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 30 - 60
Germination temperacture (C°) 21
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment soaking
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Cyphostemma schlechteri world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:870368-1
WFO ID wfo-0000634707
COL ID 33GG9
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Cyphostemma schlechteri Cissus schlechteri