Ceropegia candelabrum

• Botanical Name : Ceropegia candelabrum L.
• Synonyms : Ceropegia biflora L.
• Common Name : Kundher, Candlestick Ceropegia
• Plant Family : Asclepiadaceae
• Plant Form : Climbers
• Occurrence (Special Areas) : Indroda Park

About Ceropegia candelabrum Plant :

• Habit : A twinning herbaceous succulent climber with a roundish tuberous root.
• Leaves : Opposite, petiolate, slightly fleshy, linear, elliptical-rounded tip.
• Inflorescence : Flowers are borne in clusters on small stalks.
• Flowers :
  • Whitish yellow having swollen tube at the base.
  • Corolla lobes linear, hairy, fused at the top, greenish-yellow tinged with red-brown stripes.
  • The corolla tube is straight or bent and widens towards the top end.
  • The two halves are completely bent along the longitudinal axis to the outside and intertwine with the peaks above the corolla tube.
  • The hairy inside is yellowish to greenish with the tips purple.
• Fruit : Seed pods cylindric.
• Flowering and Fruiting Time : October - December