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Chinese pothos
Pothos chinensis
About
Pothos chinensis, also known as Chinese pothos, is a climbing plant species in the family Araceae, native to the Indian subcontinent, southern China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and the Nansei Islands of Japan. It is a root-climbing liana that can reach up to 10 m in length, with ovate to lanceolate leaves that show distinctive intramarginal venation. The plant produces green to white spathes with a globose to ovoid spadix, and its fruits ripen from green to scarlet. It occurs primarily in wet tropical biomes and flowers and fruits throughout the year.
- Family
- Araceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Pothos chinensis
- Slug
- pothos-chinensis
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Araceae
- Genus
- Pothos
- Species
- chinensis
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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