Plant information
Family: Apocynaceae [1]
Accepted scientific name: Ceropegia denticulata var. brownii [1]
Synonyms: Ceropegia brownii [1]
Basionym: Ceropegia brownii [2]
Distribution: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda [1]
Common names: N/A
Ceropegia denticulata var. brownii is a rare stem-succulent plant from Kenya. All year round it grows beautiful green-white cream flowers. This unique plant has a particularly cunning strategy for attracting flies for pollination. Its way of ensuring pollination is a complicated ploy involving fraud and imprisonment of the fly inside the flower. Ceropegia denticulata var. brownii is an easy plant to grow indoors, even on the windowsill!
Other known genera in the Apocynaceae family are: Adenium, Apteranthes, Asclepias, Australluma, Boucerosia, Caralluma, Cynanchum, Desmidorchis, Dischidia, Duvalia, Edithcolea, Hoya, Huernia, Orbea, Piaranthus, Plumeria, Rhytidocaulon, Stapelia, Tromotriche, White-sloanea etc.
Plant care
Maximum growth: up to 3 m (9.85 f).
Foliage: evergreen
Type of growth: climbing; creeping; hanging.
Flowering season: all year round; less flowers during wintertime.
Flower color: green/white (speckled).
Flower size: 40 mm to 60mm (1.57 in to 2.36 in).
Fragrance: pheromones, trapping insects (mainly flies that feed with the nectar).
Temperature: room temperature: ~20°C (68°F); it can also stay outside during summertime.
Light: indirect: 70% / sunlight: 30%
Growing medium: cactus soil 70% / perlite 20% (preferred for good aeration of the roots) / sand/gravel 10% (preferred for good aeration of the roots)
Watering: depends on the temperature. Allow the soil to dry out between waterings. During the spring, summer and early fall, the plant is watered regularly, depending on the temperature. At the end of November the water is limited to approximately once a week until about January. During the winter begins the winter rest period for the Ceropegia radicans. During this period the watering stops for 8 weeks. This period allow the plant to remain thirsty and water slightly. Starting by spring again, repeat regular watering.
Fertilizing: each month from April to August with half the dose of a general liquid houseplant fertilizer.
Sources
1. POWO: Ceropegia denticulata var. brownii
2. Tropicos: Ceropegia denticulata var. brownii
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