Epipremnum pinnatum
A widespread, vigorous root climber from India and southern China through Malesia to northern Australia and the western Pacific. It starts as a ground creeper with small entire leaves, then climbs trees and rock faces up to about 15 m, where it produces large, deeply pinnatifid adult leaves. It is an adaptable plant of lowland and hill rain forest and monsoon forest, and cultivated forms such as 'Cebu Blue' belong here.
Where it grows wild
It grows in primary and secondary, dense to open rain and monsoon forest from the lowlands into the hills. It also grows in coastal forest and on rocks and stone walls, and as a weed in plantations, on granite, andesite and limestone. It creeps on the ground as a juvenile, then climbs by clinging roots into brighter light.
Its flora limits are below 2000 m in China and 1–1600 m in the Philippines, but most populations are lowland. The measured records span 3–443 m with a median of 137 m.
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