Ceropegia linearis
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| Ceropegia linearis | |
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| Montreal Botanical Garden | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Apocynaceae |
| Genus: | Ceropegia |
| Species: | C. linearis |
| Binomial name | |
| Ceropegia linearis | |
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Ceropegia linearis, also known as string-of-needles,[citation needed] is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae, native to Southern Africa.[2]
The popular houseplant Ceropegia woodii is sometimes treated as a subspecies of C. linearis, as C. linearis subsp. woodii.[1] It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[3]
