Grape Ivy (Cissus rhombifolia) is a beautiful, indoor hanging plant that resembles a grapevine. Its leaves are divided into three segments—much like small leaflets—and are dark green with a slight sheen. It is a fast-growing plant that looks very attractive trailing down a wall or trellis, or cascading from a hanging pot. Grape Ivy prefers bright, indirect light, moderate moisture, and well-draining soil. Excessive sunlight or overwatering can damage its leaves. It can be easily propagated from cuttings.
Scientific Name: Cissus rhombifolia
Some Basic Information about Cissus rhombifolia - Indoor hanging plant
Habit: Perennial, evergreen climbing or trailing vine, usually 2–6 meters in length when provided with suitable support; forms dense foliage and climbs by means of tendrils or trails gracefully from hanging baskets, making it a popular ornamental indoor plant
Root: Adventitious and fibrous, arising from the stem base and occasionally from stem nodes; roots provide firm anchorage and efficient absorption of water and nutrients. Stem nodes may root readily when in contact with moist soil
Stem: Climbing, slender, woody to semi-woody, branched, flexible when young, becoming tougher with age; green to reddish-brown, bearing simple branched tendrils opposite the leaves that facilitate climbing
Leaf: Alternate, petiolate, compound, trifoliate; leaflets rhomboid to ovate, 4–10 cm long, margin coarsely serrate, stipulate; upper surface glossy dark green, lower surface lighter green; texture leathery to slightly fleshy with prominent reticulate venation
Inflorescence: Axillary cymes, branched, bearing numerous small flowers
Flower: Bracteate, complete, actinomorphic, bisexual, hypogynous; flowers small, greenish-yellow, inconspicuous, and nectar-producing
Calyx: Sepals 4, gamosepalous at the base, forming a small cup-like structure; valvate aestivation
Corolla: Petals 4, free, greenish-yellow, fleshy, hooded at the apex, valvate aestivation
Androecium: Stamens 4, free, opposite the petals; anthers oblong, dithecous, dehiscing longitudinally
Gynoecium: Ovary superior, bicarpellary, syncarpous, bilocular with axile placentation; style short, stigma capitate
Fruit: Berry, small, globose, purple to black when fully ripe, containing 1–4 seeds
Floral Formula: Br ⊕ ⚥ K(4) C4 A4 G̲(2)
Systematic Position
Division – Angiospermae
Class – Dicotyledonae
Order – Vitales
Family – Vitaceae
Genus – Cissus
Species – rhombifolia
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