Indoor Hanging plant- Cissus rhombifolia

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