Botanical Name: Ceropegia woodii
Common Name: String of Hearts, Rosary vine
Type of Plant: dicot: vine
Character evergreen
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape small succulent plant with thin trailing stems growing from a thick fleshy basal tuber – leaves heart-shaped, thick and fleshy
Height 1"
Spread 10' or more
Growth Rate slow
 
Environment:
Exposure in/out indoors likes bright light; outdoors shade or partial sun
Soil average potting soil
Hardiness tender
 
Morphology:
Leaves opposite, cordate to 1" wide dark green with silvery-gray blotches, silvery gray beneath – forms thick rubers at many nodes
Flowers tubular pink flowers in cymes, to 1" long – projecting stamens have black tips
Fruit small follicle
 
Propagation:
division – remove tuber and stem – plant halfway in soil
 
Usage:
trailing hanging plant or trellis plant for patios or warm bright areas indoors; used for foliage, structure and flowers
 
Landscape Care:
Watering likes regular watering
Fertilizing balanced, half-strength, monthly
Pruning none
Pests/Diseases none
 
Origin: South Africa
Family: Asclepiadaceae

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