Commonly called the African embossed plant because of its unusual foliage pattern and texture, Cercestis mirabilis (N.E.Br.) Bogner can climb up to a height of 10m. Leaves are glabrous; petiole is terete, grooved at the base in the adult stage, shortly sheathing, hastate or cordate-hastate, cuspidate-acuminate or shortly and rather abruptly acute, more or less sinuate along the margins. In young plants or young shoots entire, dark green, variegated with whitish between the primary veins in a pattern resembling the tips of a fern frond. In adult plants with large slit-like perforations between the primary veins on each side of the midrib, green, without variegation; front lobe ovate or oblong-ovate; basal lobes broadly rhombic-ovate, or somewhat hatchet-shaped, very obtuse, with a broad, open, very obtuse sinus between them.
The genus name Cercestis is derived form the Greek name, kepkis, a weaver's shuttle.
Cercestis mirabilis
Cercestis mirabilis comes in following sizes:
baby (XS) comes in a ⌀ 6 cm pot and is ca. 15 cm tall
M - comes in a ⌀ 12 cm pot and is ca. 20 cm tall
XL - comes in a ⌀ 17 cm pot and is ca. 70 cm tall
