Lastovnevy family. Homeland Asia, Africa, Australia and the Pacific Islands. There are about 150 species in nature. The name ceropegia comes from the Greek keros - wax and pege - spring, fountain (from the shape of the flower). Ceropegia is a relative of the well-known Hoya.
The most common type is Wood's Ceropegia woodii - a herbaceous plant with a tuberous rhizome. The stems are thin, thread-like, creeping, and few-branched.
The leaves are opposite, on short petioles, rounded-heart-shaped, fleshy, about 2.5 cm in diameter. The surface of the leaf is bare, with a silver marble pattern on a green background on top, and a purple tint below. Ceropegia forms a few-flowered umbrella-shaped inflorescence. The corolla of the flower is about 2.5-3 cm long, fused, pitcher-shaped, swollen at the base, lilac-pink in color with dark purple petals, double at the edge.
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