Cissus quadrangularis

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Cissus quadrangularis, Planch. (Vitis quadrangularis, Linn.). An odd succulent with 4-winged sts. much constricted at the nodes, climbing, mostly glabrous, often nearly leafless, looking like a spineless cereus: lvs. varying from ovate and not lobed to cordate or reniform and deeply 3-lobed, the middle part sometimes lobed, the sinuses open and rounded, margins denticulate: fls. in small short-peduncled compound lateral cymes, the calyx 1 line long, the petals 4 and greenish; stamens 4, with short filaments: berries nearly globose, red, 1-seeded, size of pea, acrid. Trop. Afr., Arabia, India, Moluccas.—Sts. said to be eaten by natives in Ceylon.


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