Species · genus Cissus · Vitaceae

Veldt Grape

Cissus quadrangularis L.

Also known as: Winged Treebine · Adamant Creeper · Devil's Backbone · Finger Cactus · Single-stemmed Wild Grape

Growth habit

climbing succulent

Native range

Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Djibouti, DR Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Oman, Pakistan, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Reference · C. quadrangularis

Cultivars of C. quadrangularis

The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.

No named cultivars catalogued under C. quadrangularis yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

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A climbing succulent native to seasonally dry tropical scrub across Africa, Arabia, and South Asia, with quadrangular stems that store water. It wants gritty, fast-draining mix and tolerates neglect far better than wet feet; water only when the soil is dry all the way through and the stems begin to look slightly drawn. Give it bright light and support to climb, easing off sharply in cool or dim months.

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified

Light: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water: ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 14-28d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Bright, indirect

Water

≈ every 28 days

Humidity

Low — average room

Temperature

13–32 °C

Soil mix

Very gritty, sharply draining succulent mix

Propagation

Stem-segment cuttings left to callus

Fertilizing

Light cactus feed once or twice in summer

Growth rate

Moderate

Flowering

Rarely flowers indoors

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Not yet documented

This is where toxicity lives — every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

Reference images

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 14-28d) · ai:claude-fable-5

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