Cissus subaphylla

You can tell that we have a love for rare plants here at the nursery. It doesn’t get much rarer than this succulent grape relative endemic to the islands of Socotra and Samhah off the coast of Yemen. We love its ghostly white to silver stems that arch out when grown in a container. The young new stems have a unique coppery coloring, and the occasionally produced small leaves are somewhat red as they emerge. Its native habitat is desert, or dry shrubland where it forms tangled mats that actually provide covering for endangered plants against grazing by goats.