Rosary Vine
Ceropegia woodii Schltr.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 3.0 m
- wide
- —
Apocynaceae
Also called String Of Hearts, Hearts entangled
Formerly Ceropegia barbertonensis, Ceropegia euryacme, Ceropegia hastata, Ceropegia leptocarpa, and 1 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Climbing tuberous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Zimbabwe to S. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 2.0 m to 4.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension purple, white; Wikipedia magenta, white
- Coldest it survives
- 7 °C (USDA zone 11b)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -1.1 °C; Wikipedia 15 °C
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 愛之蔓, 心蔓
- Chinese (China)
- 爱之蔓, 心蔓, 吊金钱
- Japanese
- ハートカズラ
- Russian
- Церопегия Вуда
- Spanish
- dos corazones en un hilo
- French
- Chaîne des cœurs, Lanterne chinoise
- Portuguese
- Corações-emaranhados, Coração-emaranhado
- Finnish
- herttalyhty
- Hebrew
- שעוונית זוחלת
- Slovak
- lampášik Woodov
- Turkish
- Kalp Kalbe Karşı Çiçeği, Kalpkalbekarşı
- Simplified Chinese
- 可爱藤, 吊金钱, 爱之蔓
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Ceropegia woodii (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.