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Rhoicissus tomentosa

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

(Lamarck) Wild & R.B. Drummond

Common Names

• Wild Grape
• Monkey Rope
• Cape Grape
• Evergreen Grape
• Common Forest Grape
• Gewone Bosdruif
• Large-leaved Grape Ivy

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Ethiopia
• Southern Africa
• Malawi
• Mauritius
• Mozambique
• South Africa
• Swaziland
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• forest edge
• riverine shrubland
• riverine forest

Flowering Times

• Spring to Summer Oct
• Nov Oct-Dec (Zimbabwe)

Fruiting Times

• Jan

Evergreen glabrescent high-climbing liane with tomentose tendrils, canopy climber, young branchlets with velvety reddish-brown hairs, leathery green leaves, small densely ferruginous-tomentose yellowish-green or creamy-green flowers in dense axillary or terminal cymes or panicles, with glabrous dark red to black 20mm diameter fruits, palmate toothed foliage clothed with rusty down beneath

Further References

• van der Spuy 1976
• Sturtevant 1919
• Bailey 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• RHS A-Z
• Mobot
• Bodkin
• net
• Aluka
• Botanicus
• Fzim
• APDC
• The Plant List