Ceropegia woodii
A tuberous, leaf-succulent trailing vine from eastern southern Africa. Kew now accepts it as Ceropegia linearis subsp. woodii, though it is still sold as C. woodii. In the wild it hangs from shaded rocky ledges and outcrops in forest and woodland, with its tuber wedged in shallow humus-filled cracks. It expects warm, wet summers and a cooler, much drier winter, and does best indoors with bright light, a very free-draining mix and restrained watering.
Where it grows wild
Mostly rocky ledges and cliff edges inside indigenous forest, where the tubers sit in cracks under a thin layer of humus-rich soil and the stems trail over the ground or cascade down the rock, rooting where aerial tubers touch soil. It also grows in open or closed woodland and on outcrops, and rarely in grassland. SANBI notes it is usually in shaded places, with the base shaded and the stems reaching into brighter light.
SANBI gives 100–1180 m. Few of the GBIF records carry an elevation, so the measured sites could not be checked against this.
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