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''Cyphostemma juttae'' is a slow-growing succulent species of ''
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Cyphostemma
''Cyphostemma'' is a flowering plant genus in the family Vitaceae, with around 250 species distributed throughout the tropics and subtropics. These species are caudiciform and used to belong to the genus ''Cissus''. The genus name comes from Gre ...
'' from southern Africa
Southern Africa is the southernmost subregion of the African continent, south of the Congo and Tanzania. The physical location is the large part of Africa to the south of the extensive Congo River basin. Southern Africa is home to a number o ...
, well known as an ornamental plant
Ornamental plants or garden plants are plants that are primarily grown for their beauty but also for qualities such as scent or how they shape physical space. Many flowering plants and garden varieties tend to be specially bred cultivars that ...
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The plant is also known as wild grape, tree grape, Namibian grape, Droog-my-keel and bastard cobas.
This species can reach tall and has large shiny leaves. It is a deciduous plant. It grows in an arid region of summer-rainfall, and it loses its leaves in the dryer winter.
See also
* List of Southern African indigenous trees
This is a list of Southern African trees, shrubs, suffrutices, geoxyles and lianes, and is intended to cover Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The notion of 'indigenous' is of ...
* Kurt Dinter
Moritz Kurt Dinter (10 June 1868 – 16 December 1945) was a German botanist and explorer in South West Africa.
Education and career
Dinter was born in Bautzen, where he attended the Realschule. Having completed his military service and joi ...
References
*van Wyk, B. and van Wyk, P. 1997. ''Field Guide to trees of southern Africa''. Struik, Cape Town * Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern *External links
* juttae Trees of South Africa Ornamental trees Least concern plants {{Vitaceae-stub