Buy Beautiful Grape Ivy Plant - Cissus rhombifolia - Perfect for Hanging Baskets and Wall Decor

Description

Common name:

Grape Ivy

Regional name:

Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati - Grape Ivy

Category:

Indoor Plants, Groundcovers

Family:

Vitaceae or Grape family

Light:

Low light tolerant

Water:

Normal

Primarily grown for:

Foliage

Flowering season:

Flowers are inconspicuous

Foliage color:

Green

Plant Height or length:

2 to 4 meters

Plant Form:

Climbing or growing on support

Special Character:

• Hanging or weeping growth habit

Plant Description:

- Origin - West Indies, America
- Scandent, herbaceous plant with vine like, flexuous, brown hairy branches having coiling tendrils, and compound leaves of 3 rhombic ovate, stalked, thin fleshy leaflets wavy toothed, the glabrous surface fresh green to matallic deep green and with brownish veins and petioles, pubescent underneath.
- The young growth covered with white hairs.
- Small flowers with 4 petals, unlike Rhoicissus which have 5-7 petals.
- Evergreen ground cover.
- Leaves are alternate and may be simple or palmately compound
- Grow as foliage plant and often used for hanging baskets, pedestal plants or trained as totems
- The oak shaped leaves of this plant makes it very different.
- Plant is ideal as a ground cover or for growing in raised beds.

Growing tips:

- Propagation from leaf bud cutting under intermittent mist
- Take moderate amounts of sun.
- Require warm climate.
- Any well drained soil.
- Allow to become almost dry, them water.
- Thoroughtly so that water drains out of the bottom of the pot.
- Low to high indoor light will grow these plants quite nicely.
- Protect from direct sun which may result in leaf scorch or burn.