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Cissus discolor

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

Blume

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Australia
• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Sichuan
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Perlis
• Selangor - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Papua - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Woodland shrubland
• mixed forest
• disturbed area
• moist forest.
• montane areas Paste of plant is animal remedy. Plant used as fodder.

Flowering Times

• Jun-Oct (China) Summer
• May-Sep (Thailand) Aug-Oct (India)

Fruiting Times

• Nov-Dec (China) Oct-Dec (Thailand)

Slender herbaceous glabrous perennial evergreen tendril liana with bifid tendrils, red stems, ridged branchlets. Simple leaves deep green with silver, grey or pink or grey zones between veins, maroon underneath to 150mm x 50mm, toothed margins. Terminal or leaf-opposed corymbs to 20mm across, umbels or panicles of greenish-yellow flowers with red petals, petals to 2.5mm, calyx & petals glabrous, 4 petals 1.5mm long, fruit a blue-black berry to 7mm long x 5mm on red pedicels, dentate mucronate leaves with bristly serratures, furrowed branches

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Manandhar 2002
• FOC
• RHS A-Z
• net
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• BF
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• JAA
• GBS
• Exotica
• IFV