Species · genus Senecio · Asteraceae

Cape Ivy

Senecio angulatus L.fil.

Also known as: Climbing Groundsel · Creeping Cape Ivy · Creeping Groundsel · Creeping Ragwort

Growth habit

climbing shrub

Native range

Cape Provinces

Reference · S. angulatus

Cultivars of S. angulatus

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

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

Guide

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Senecio angulatus is a scrambling, semi-succulent climbing shrub from the Cape Provinces, where it endures dry spells by storing water in its fleshy leaves and stems. Give it bright light and gritty, fast-draining mix, and let it run quite dry between waterings — water only when the top two inches of mix are dry, and never leave it sitting wet, as it rots far more readily than it wilts.

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 10-18d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Bright, indirect

Water

≈ every 18 days

Humidity

Low — average room

Temperature

7–27 °C

Soil mix

Free-draining succulent mix with added grit

Propagation

Stem cuttings root easily in gritty mix

Fertilizing

Light feed monthly through spring and summer

Growth rate

Fast

Flowering

Clusters of small yellow flowers in late autumn to winter

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Toxic to cats & dogs

Senecio (ragwort / groundsel) — pyrrolizidine alkaloids; vomiting, lethargy. This is where toxicity lives: every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 10-18d) · ai:claude-fable-5 · ASPCA

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