The pics online look different to me. What do you think? I bought it today.
Is this Ceropegia woodii?
The flower.
I have seen that as well, and wondered the same thing. mine has more heart shaped leaves though........I saw one at walmart and almost bought it...but it said it was the same as the one I had...yet it is so different.
yes it is - it's the greener, more arrow shaped version, there are a few types or "clones", the one more commonly seen is the grayish green heart shaped leaf. They are both probably just labeled cerpegia woodii or "rosary vine" or "string of hearts" I love them, I have 4, and there is also a variegated one, with lots of white in it, that I finally found at a garden center not too far from me, I plan on getting it real soo.... I find that the one you have pictured is less hardy than the heart shaped, is more touchy about over or underwatering, and less loving of too much sun.... The ceropegia family is pretty diverse, there are so many types, some of them just bare vines with flowers, kind of otherworldly looking, and the flowers are weird!
I have one that hangs all the way to the floor from a 7 foot high shelf, in this picture you can see the bottom of it.....I am constantly trimming it at floor level, cause it keeps growing!
This message was edited Aug 3, 2007 6:39 PM
WOW....awesome plant!!!! So I guess I gotta go back to walmart and get the one they have......
Tomorrow I will take a picture of the whole plant...they are usually sold by Exotic Angel these days, though the one in my picture is about 15 years old - it doesn't take that long to grow that length, I have actually cut it back several times to pot level, a few times when I moved it got hopelessly tangled and I had no choice. I'd say it takes about a year to grow that long, if it is happy. They like lots of water, unlike most succulents, but are very tolerant to underwatering, to the point that it does no long term damage to them if you forget to water.
They are also very easy to propagate from cuttings, at least the heart shaped one is, there are little round tubers along the more mature stems, you just lay them in a spiral on the soil surface and pin them down in a few places, at each tuber several new shoots will form. I'd be happy to send you some, but it might be ridiculously expensive to mail them to Canada.
I can't wait to get the variegated one, though like most variegated plants, it may be a slow grower.
A variegated one, I will be on the lookout for that!!! I love the one I have, it is true, very easy to grow......seems to always have a flower on it as well....
Is there a website with pics of other ceropegias?
I just found one.
http://www.sagereynolds.com/cero/cedex.htm
Here are a few more pictures of the heart shaped rosary vine
obviously because it is on a shelf, only the one side of the plant has really been growing, if it were just hanging, it would be much thicker cause the vines would be coming from all around the pot
close up - it looks a little drier at this time of year becuase of the heat, and I have to clean it up, get rid of some of the vines that die and shrivel up - it actually looks better in the cooler weather
This is a kind of fuzzy picture, but you can see the difference in the leaves between this one and the picture in the opening post, this one is the more commonly found one, and it is the same as the 7ft one in my foyer.
That's the one I have...and I have to hang it high......the cats think it's string, therefore fair game!!
Beautiful plant you have there.....I can only dream of having one that long some day....
they don't take that long to get that long, maybe a year and a few months....my cat goes out into this room occasionally, but she is usually more interested in looking out the window at the chipmunks that make their home in the patch of ivy by the front walk than in the plants. Actually, I am lucky with this cat, she has very little interest in plants. She never jumps on the table or the counter either, not even when I am not home. It just isn't normal!
lol.....my past cats have never bothered with plants either....but I had to go and get 4 kittens.....all at once......busy around here....
I have one of those C. woodii clones, too, and this one (which has even more elongated leaves than the one I have....nice!) is just that...a clone of C. woodii, as Bhavana34 stated.
Unlike you, though, Bhavana...I've found this clone to be very vigorous! It produces many more bulbils than the other C. woodii, for me, anyway, and seems to need *more* water than the other....period.
Mine even produced a seed pod last year, which my original C. woodii has never done!
The variegated C. woodii has a lot of PINK in it for those of you who appreciate foliage with pink variegation. (I know there are a few 'pink' lovers out there, LOL!)
I have found that one to be quite 'fussy'.
I'd offer cuttings of my variegated one, but unfortunately it's having some problems at the moment...the durned fussy thing!
Mine was sent to me by a friend in NJ a couple of years back, and I think she said she found it either at HD or Lowes.
Nan, do you have a picture? It could be yet another clone that you have!
My finicky rosary vine, which I think is the same one in the original post, DOES produce alot of the tubers, and fast, but I can't seem to get it on a consistant healthy growth course. It will look great for a while, then it starts to look bad and I lose some, usually stems right at soil level - then it will look good again, then bad - it is frustrating!! I think I had it in too much sun, which my regular rosary vine seems to thrive on...so now I have it back in a shadier spot. It is blooming, but not consistantly growing. I would love to hear about your growing conditions, the first year I had this one it was beatiful and I would love to get it back that way - actually, I bought 3 of them in little 4" hanging pots, I eventually potted them all together in an 8" hanger...
I don't think I have ever seen the variegated one for sale anywhere except recently in Pennsylvania. I am not surprised it's fussy, like most variegated plants could be. I want it anyway, and will probably pick it up in the next few months. The nursery I saw it at had alot of ceropegia, most of them are extremely unusual!
This message was edited Aug 7, 2007 4:47 PM
here it is...again, fuzzy pictures - I really should take the time to figure out the close up and macro options on my dig camera...
this one may be clearer (but probably not!)
As you can see the leaves vary in size and shape, even on the same plant. I also think you are right about this one needing alot more water, but a while back I got some AWFUL organic potting soil that never dries out, and I think I may have used it when I repotted this plant - slowly but surely I am repotting all the ones that got that nasty soil, maybe this one will be next.
This message was edited Aug 7, 2007 4:54 PM
Looks good and all those flowers!
Well, Bhavana...yours looks pretty darned good to me! it looks better than mine (fuller) by a long shot.
Mine was a tiny plant when I received it from the same friend in NJ, in a little 3" (?) hanging pot....is that what yours was in?
Otherwise, I think mine is the same as yours.
Boojums, though, seems to have even more elongated leaves than mine or yours....don't you think? I'm looking specifically at that leaf that's 'front and center'....Boojum, is most of the growth on your plant most similar to that leaf, or is it variable?
I could try to take a photo, but yours will put mine to shame, lol!!
I grow mine in a south window all year 'round, so they get pretty much direct sun for about 1/2 the day. I'd guess that the window is pretty cool in the winter, and pretty warm (and dry) in the summer. I usually let them get pretty dry before watering, but this clone seems to be unhappy when it dries out too much. It's tubers/bulbils are really vigorous, as when it begins to outgrow it's pot, it pushes the soil right up and out! I really should repot into a much larger pot, but don't have the space nor does the rod that I hang it from have the strength to hold a large pot.
Had to add....how I *wish* a nursery near me carried unusual Ceropegia!
I got my C. haygarthii at a nearby nursery, but it was a total fluke, as they never had a single one again!
This message was edited Aug 8, 2007 10:44 AM
Hi Nan. Mine has mostly long pointy leaves.
Hmm...interesting!
Let me know if you might want to trade cuttings in the future.
Altman's has the variegated form for sale....I think that's who often supplies HD/Lowes Cactus/Succulents.
http://www.cactusshop.com/