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Cissus aralioides

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

(Welwitsch ex Baker) Planchon

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Zaire
• Zambia

Natural Habitats

• Secondary deciduous forest
• riverside
• forest.

Flowering Times

• Mar
• May
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• May
• Jun

Tall woody herbaceous glabrous tendril climber with succulent striated stems or small tree, 5 leaflets coriaceous & glabrous, terminal leaflet 100mm x 40mm, panicles of yellow, greenish or whitish flowers turning reddish, grey-downy calyx to 2mm across, corolla 2mm long, 4 reddish petals 3mm long, glabrous fruits yellow or red turning blue-purple 25mm x 25mm

Further References

• Mobot
• FCP
• net
• Aluka
• Botanicus
• The Plant List
• FOTA
• Ichikawa