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| syn. Ceropegia pubescens (E. Mey.) |
| distribution:
Mozambique Namibia South-Africa: Cape Province; KwaZulu-Natal Swaziland Tanzania Zambia Zimbabwe |
| This species is
one of the tuberous climbers. Its twining stems are rose-coloured to reddish brown and slightly haired. The long petioled, heart-shaped leaves are sometimes lobed resp. dentate, dark green and also slightly hirsute. The flowers are quite large and conspicuous. They have a highly swollen base, which forms nearly the half of the flower's length and which is white in its lower third. The upper two thirds as well as the flower-tube are decorated with broad dark brown stripes. The flower-tube is very thin, the petals spread almost in a right angle, but are united at their end. They are dark and show some quite long but very thin, reddish brown hair. Some clones have almost complete white flowers, in which only the petals show a dark brown colouration. The Venda in Swaziland cook and eat the leaves of this species like spinach. |
 left:Ceropegia meyeri Photo: by courtesy of Lourens Grobler http://www.flickr.com/photos/afriorchids |
 left:Ceropegia meyeri Photo: by courtesy of Helen Pickering http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw |
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