Species · genus Cissus · Vitaceae

Princess Vine

Cissus verticillata (L.) Nicolson & C.E.Jarvis

Also known as: Seasonvine · Pudding Withe · Possum Grape · Princessvine · Pudding Bush

Growth habit

liana

Native range

Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Galápagos, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.

Reference · C. verticillata

Cultivars of C. verticillata

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

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

Guide

The species-level account. Cultivar pages build on this and say where they differ.

Cissus verticillata is a climbing liana from the Vitaceae family, native to a broad sweep of tropical and subtropical Americas where it scrambles through warm, humid forest margins. As a woody climber it wants bright indirect light and a support to ascend; let the top inch or two of mix dry before watering, then water thoroughly and let any excess drain. Its grape-family relatives can hold raphides and tartaric-acid compounds, so treat ingestion as uncertain rather than safe.

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 7-12d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Bright, indirect

Water

≈ every 12 days

Humidity

Medium

Temperature

15–30 °C

Soil mix

Rich, well-draining potting mix

Propagation

Stem cuttings rooted in water or soil

Fertilizing

Balanced liquid feed monthly in the growing season

Growth rate

Fast

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 7-12d) · ai:claude-fable-5

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