Family: Vitaceae
Plant: A long stemmed woody climber with 2-branched tendrils and rusty hairs on new growth.
Flowers: Bright yellow, small, with 4-5 petals in dense panicles in leaf axils.
Flowering: October-December.
Fruit: Berry, purplish black, globular, about 1cm diameter and borne in grape-like bunches. The fruit are edible when mature and are sweet but often have a rather astringent taste.
Leaves: Palmate with 5 lanceolate waxy leaflets, each leaflet 3-15cm long and 15-40mm wide with tendrils or flower opposite. The leaves are pale grey and sparsely hairy on their underside.
Habitat: Coastal rainforest and sheltered gullies in wet sclerophyll forest.
Features: A climber with 2-branched tendrils. Palmate leaves with 5 leaflets. Pale grey undersides of leaves. Bunches of purplish-black grape-like berries.
Name:
Cissus From Greek kissos = ivy (referring to its climbing habit)
hypoglauca From Greek = not quite blue-green (referring to the undersides of its leaves)
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Type |
Climber/Scrambler |
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Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
Yellow |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
4, 5 |
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Flowering Month |
10, 11, 12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Berry |
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Colour |
Purple, Black |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Other |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval |
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Length |
Medium |
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Margins |
Toothed/Serrated |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
Hairy, Discolorous |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Rainforest, Wet sclerophyll forest |
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