Cissampelos hirta
Velvetleaf
Cissampelos pareira
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- Botanical name
- Cissampelos pareira
- Also known as
- Velvetleaf
- Family
- Menispermaceae
- Genus
- Cissampelos
- Reference
- World Flora Online
How to grow Velvetleaf
We have not written a growing guide for this species yet.
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Other names for this plant
These names have all been used for Cissampelos pareira but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.
Cissampelos acuminata
Cissampelos argentea
Cissampelos auriculata
Cissampelos australis
Cissampelos benthamiana
Cissampelos boivinii
Cissampelos bojeriana
Cissampelos caapeba
Cissampelos canescens
Cissampelos cocculus
Cissampelos consociata
Cissampelos convolvulacea
Cissampelos cordifolia
Cissampelos cumingiana
Cissampelos delicatula
Cissampelos diffusa
Cissampelos discolor
Cissampelos discolor
Cissampelos discolor var. cardiophylla
Cissampelos diversa
Cissampelos elata
Cissampelos ellenbeckii
Cissampelos eriantha
Cissampelos eriocarpa
Cissampelos glaucescens
Cissampelos gracilis
Cissampelos grallatoria
Cissampelos guayaquilensis
Cissampelos haenkeana
Cissampelos hederacea
Cissampelos heterophylla
Cissampelos hirsuta
Cissampelos hirsutissima
Cissampelos kohautiana
Cissampelos limbata
Cissampelos littoralis
Cissampelos littoralis var. minutiflora
Cissampelos longipes
Cissampelos madagascariensis
Cissampelos madagascariensis
Cissampelos mauritiana
Cissampelos microcarpa
Cissampelos monoica
Cissampelos myriocarpa
Cissampelos nepalensis
Cissampelos nephrophylla
Cissampelos obtecta
Cissampelos obtecta
Cissampelos orinocensis
Cissampelos pannosa
Cissampelos pareira f. emarginato-mucronata
Cissampelos pareira f. reniformis
Cissampelos pareira subvar. crassifolia
Cissampelos pareira subvar. madagascariensis
Cissampelos pareira subvar. usambarensis
Cissampelos pareira subvar. wakefieldii
Cissampelos pareira var. australis
Cissampelos pareira var. caapeba
Cissampelos pareira var. gardneri
Cissampelos pareira var. haenkeana
Others in Cissampelos
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