Ceropegia: description, care and reproduction

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The name of the flower ceropegia comes from the Greek word Ceropegia, which means “candelabra”. Indeed, the flowers of this plant with two-lobed outer lobes and stamens fused into a tube have a bizarre shape and resemble ancient lamps. For successful care of ceropegia, it is recommended to grow this crop in compositions with succulent plants.

Ceropegia (Ceropegia) belongs to the Kutrovye family. Homeland – South America, Africa, Australia, Canary Islands.

The genus unites about 150 species of herbaceous plants distributed in the tropical regions of Asia, Africa, Madagascar, only about five are cultivated. Some have fleshy erect stems that do not have leaves, but the most famous are the succulent ampelous species.

Ceropegia is a perennial plant. Filamentous shoots are straight or hanging down. Rhizome shortened, tuberous. The leaves are small, rounded, red-violet below. Flowers of a specific form, gray-pink with pubescent eggplant-colored teeth.

Ceropegia blooms in summer.

Wood’s ceropegia and other plant species (with photo)

The following types of ceropegia are most popular:

Sanderson (S. sandersonii).

Barclay (C. barklyi).

Wood (C. woodii).

Weak (C. debilis).

Stape-shaped (C. formus).

Forked (C. dichotoma).

African (C. africana).

Ceropegia Wood (Ceropegia woodii Schlecht.), Kutrovye family. Homeland – South Africa. An elegant evergreen herbaceous plant with numerous intertwined thin, filamentous light green creeping shoots.

Filiform leafy shoots form a continuous mat on the substrate and hang down from the edges of the dish. The leaves are rather small, opposite, obtusely triangular-oval in shape, on short thin petioles.

As can be seen in the photo, Wood’s ceropegia has a whitish-green leaf blade on the upper side with a marble painting that gives a matte tone to the leaf:

On the underside, the leaves are whitish with a pink tint, the central vein is clearly visible, it is dark green. The internodes are quite long – 3-4 cm. Ceropegia flowers are cylindrical, small, reddish, consist of a calyx and corolla with stamens and pistil. Blooms from late summer to late autumn. Ceropegia roots are thin, slightly branched, few.

Recommended for amateur collections as an ampelous plant and small microcompositions of cacti and succulents imitating a desert landscape.

Ceropegia rooting has creeping succulent stems with oval or oblong fleshy leaves.

Look at the photo – in this ceropegia, tubular flowers are covered with green, white and purple-red stripes:

Ceropegia stapeliform. Erect bushy plants with grey-brown speckled succulent stems and only rudimentary scale-like leaves.

Pay attention to the photo – this type of cerapegia has funnel-shaped greenish-white flowers dotted with purple-black spots:

Care and reproduction of ceropegia at home

The dishes for growing ceropegia should be wide enough and shallow. It is good if the surface for contact between the stems and the soil is large, as this will contribute to the successful development of the plant.

Ceropegia is photophilous and works best in a bright place. The background for her should be plain, light – it stands out clearly on it. Ceropegia needs bright light, but needs protection from the midday sun.

It is not particularly demanding on temperature conditions. Maintains difference from +10 to +20 °C and above. In winter – cool content is not lower than 10-12 ° C. Freely transfers dry air of rooms.

Substrate: turf and leaf earth and sand in equal proportions, with the addition of crushed expanded clay.

Watering as the soil dries up. In winter, when caring for ceropegia at home, watering should be very rare.

The plant is transplanted when the tubers close the pot.

Feed regularly with a weak fertilizer from mid-spring to late summer.

Reproduction of ceropegia is carried out by dividing the rhizomes. Aerial tubers are formed on the stems, which easily take root in a light substrate.

In the nodes of the shoots, especially with age, light yellowish nodules develop, which give the whole appearance of the plant a bizarre and peculiar look.

Propagation by tubers means that a shoot with well developed nodules should be divided into parts so that each part of the divided shoot has a tuber and at least 2 leaves. The nodules and part of the stem are placed in crushed expanded clay, ion exchanger or coarse sand. Until the roots form, moderate watering is performed. Rooted tubers are transplanted to a permanent place of 3-5 pieces in wide containers. Plants are actively developing, forming a lush mat of intertwining shoots.

For propagation by cuttings, young apical shoots 4-5 cm long are rooted in an ion-exchange substrate, sand, expanded clay.

Ceropegia has found application in the design of walls, they are installed in hanging flat vases, or in wide planters, in which the stems hang down and take root and, spreading over the edges, frame them. Florists, knowing that among plants with similar hanging shoots there are not so many plants suitable for decorative use, vertical and wall decoration of rooms, the use of ceropegia for this is highly welcome.

Ceropegia blends beautifully with other miniature deciduous plants. It grows well and develops even under artificial lighting.

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