Scientific Name: Cissus hypoglauca

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  • Pronunciation:
    CISS-us hi-po-GLAWK-ah
  • Common Name:
    Giant water Vine, Five-leaf Water Vine
  • Derivation:
    Cissus: Gr. cissos - ivy hypoglauca: hypo- under. Glauca - silvery bluishgreen (colour under leaves)
  • Type:
    Vine , Climber
  • Family:
    VITACEAE
  • Flowers:
    Bright yellow, summer.
  • Fruit:
    Clusters of black purple juiceless grapes, sour.
  • Vegetation Type:
    Wet Eucalypt Forest
  • Species List:
    Weyba Esp, Emu Swamp, Bush food, Bush medicine, Craft, FI Podberscek, Pomona School Oval, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, NNP Parkedge/Alex, St. Teresa's, Meridan College, NNP service road, Cooroibah26.4.09, Wooroi Palm Grove, Cooloothin Corner, Old Tewantin, Tewantin Forest Gyndier, Fraser Island, Mill Point, Cooroibah Conservation Park, Cooroibah Bushland Reserve, Boreen Point, Leslie Drive Roundabout TAFE NNP Tanglewood Noosa Banks Kin Kin Scrub BHNR Dandaloo Noosa River NP, Stratford Park, Upper Yandina Creek, Heritage Park
Cultural Notes

TAKE CARE! Some information about bush foods and medicines may be anecdotal. Correct identification and preparation is essential:

|Bush food. Edible berry eaten raw. |Bush medicine: Coughs and colds - fruit jelly soothed throat |Tool: Vine around waist used for tree climbing.

Identification Notes

Adult leaves have five pale-backed leaflets, margins entire with a few teeth. Juvenile leaflets in threes with stronger serrations. New growth limp red-brown covered in rusty hairs. Forked tendrils.||

Associated Fauna

Generous food production for fruit-eaters.||

Landscaping Notes

Noosa Council Preferred Species list .||Groundcover. Enthusiastic climber. Successfully propagated by Noosa and District Landcare. Part shade. Indoor pot plant potential.||Feature foliage||Successfully propagated by Tin Can Bay City Farm Nursery.||Successfully propagated by Barung Landcare||