Scientific Name: Cissus alata
Common Name: grape ivy, Danish ivy
Family Name: Vitaceae
Origin: Central America, South America
Hardiness Zone: Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C)
Plant Type: Indoor foliage plant, Vine or climber
Mature Size: 3 - 5m x 2 - 3m (height x width)
Habit: Pendulous
Form: Climbing, Weeping
Texture: Medium - coarse
Landscape Uses: Arbors or trellis, Hanging basket, Indoor plant
Exposure: Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Lustrous, Pubescent, Trifoliate (ternate), Ovate, Rhomboidal, Dentate, Pinnately lobed
Flowers: Cyme, Yellow, Red, Can flower any month
Fruit: Berry (true)
Key ID Features:
Indoor vine; leaves alternate, trifoliate, leaflets usually toothed or lobed, most expanding to 5-9cm long x 4-8cm wide, petioles 4-6mm long, most petiolules 1-8mm long on the side leaflets to 1-2cm long for the terminal leaflet.