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Cissus repens

A tendril-climbing vine in the grape family with heart-shaped leaves, widespread from the Himalayan foothills and southern China through Malesia to New Guinea, northern Australia and New Caledonia. It grows in lowland tropical rainforest and its edges, so it wants warmth, bright filtered light and something to climb.

Cissus repens
Photo: Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day Warm-growingTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Ordinary room humidityBand in Plantistry
Light Bright, filtered lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodClimber

Where it grows wild

A climber of tropical rainforest, monsoon forest and forest margins, scrambling over shrubs and into the lower canopy by tendrils.

Sea level to about 1,400 m, with most records in the lowlands (median around 230 m).

Andaman Is.AssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaChina South-CentralChina SoutheastChristmas I.East HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmar

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 4.0 licence, unmodified.