CAT-00128
Water vine
Cissus hypoglauca
Catalog fields
- Genus
- Cissus
- Photo
- Not recorded
- Edible
- Yes
- layout
- single
- Habitat
- Not recorded
- Published
- Yes
- Food group
- Fruit
- Latin name
- Cissus hypoglauca
- Fruit photo
- Not recorded
- Plant title
- Water vine
- Source URLs
- https://sites.google.com/education.nsw.gov.au/2019culturallearningspacebpps/bush-tucker-plants/water-vine; https://resources.austplants.com.au/plant/cissus-hypoglauca/; https://resources.austplants.com.au/plant/cissus-hypoglauca/ Open source ↗ Open source 2 ↗
- Catalogue ID
- CAT-00128
- Mature width
- Depends on support; vigorous
- Native range
- Eastern Queensland through NSW to eastern Victoria.
- Plant family
- Vitaceae
- Supplier SKU
- Not recorded
- Listing group
- Regional / traditional food plant
- Mature height
- Climbing stems to tens of metres; exceptionally longer
- Native states
- NSW, QLD, VIC
- Original list
- No
- Research date
- 10/10/2026
- Research notes
- Profile enriched from botanical/nursery sources. Dimensions are unpruned regional estimates where available; missing measurements remain explicit. Seasons are regional guides and vary with climate, location, cultivar and plant maturity. Drought and cultivation guidance are qualitative garden inferences, not measured ratings.
- Evidence status
- Published food use; preparation detail review pending
- Fruiting season
- Species-specific period not yet confirmed.
- Background photo
- Not recorded
- Edible component
- Ripe fruit pulp
- Flowering season
- Spring-summer.
- Brief description
- Vigorous woody rainforest vine with compound leaves.
- Drought tolerance
- Moderate once established; prefers moisture.
- Preparation notes
- Use fully ripe fruit only; unripe fruit can irritate the throat.
- Flower description
- Small deep-yellow flowers in large branching clusters.
- General cultivation
- General guidance (qualitative): Suitable only with room and strong support; prune to contain growth.
- Botanical description
- Not recorded
- Other botanical names
- Also treated as Apocissus hypoglauca; taxonomy review pending
- Attracts birds and bugs
- Native bees and insects visit flowers; canopy shelters birds.
- Flora of Australia profile
- Not recorded
- Fruit type and description
- Dark fleshy berries in clusters; documented water-vine name refers to additional traditional use.
- Flora of Australia citation
- Not recorded
- Flora of Australia retrieved
- Not recorded