Spidery little pot plant with tapering, grassy-looking leaves about six inches long, arching somewhat stiffly, with cream-white tidy stripes along the edge and sometimes down the middle. Always looks prim and precise.
CARE. Intermediate temperature, needs fresh air, loamy soil, filtered sun, moist.
PROPAGATION. Division.
SPECIAL USES. Indoor gardens, artificial light.
Cissus striata Vitaceae Miniature Grape Ivy
This lacy little climber looks less like grape ivy, more like woodbine, but it certainly does look and act like a miniature. The reddish stems turn and twist at angles, trying to touch the tiny tendrils to a support they can curl around. The one-and-a-half-inch leaves are like five fat separate fingers delicately joined in the center, scalloped or toothed near the rounded tip, burnished green and lined with wine beneath.
Cissus striata—a genuine miniature climber not unlike woodbine
CARE. Intermediate temperature, humid, loamy garden soil, filtered sun, moisture in the pots.
PROPAGATION. Roots and cuttings.