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Lianas are characteristic of tropical moist broadleaf forests (especially seasonal forests), but may be found in temperate rainforests and temperate deciduous forests. There are also temperate lianas, for example the members of the Clematis or Vitis (wild grape) genera.
This is a list of plants organized by their common names. However, the common names of plants often vary from region to region, which is why most plant encyclopedias refer to plants using their scientific names, in other words using binomials or "Latin" names.
Nepenthes (/ n ɪ ˈ p ɛ n θ iː z / nih-PEN-theez) is a genus of carnivorous plants, also known as tropical pitcher plants, or monkey cups, in the monotypic family Nepenthaceae. The genus includes about 170 species , [ 4 ] and numerous natural and many cultivated hybrids.
Nepenthes lowii is a climbing plant. The stem may attain a length of more than 10 m [4] and is up to 20 mm in diameter. Internodes are cylindrical in cross section and up to 8 cm long. [5] A rosette plant with lower pitchers. The leaves of this species are coriaceous in texture.
Pseudovanilla foliata, commonly known as the great climbing orchid, is a plant in the orchid family native to Queensland, New South Wales, and New Guinea. [1] It is a terrestrial orchid with a vining vegetative habit, climbing by means of adventitious roots produced at nodes.
Guaraná (/ ɡ w ə ˈ r ɑː n ə / from the Portuguese guaraná [ɡʷaɾɐˈna]; Paullinia cupana, syns. P. crysan, P. sorbilis) is a climbing plant in the family Sapindaceae, native to the Amazon basin and especially common in Brazil.
Cardiospermum halicacabum, known as the lesser balloon vine, balloon plant or love in a puff, is a climbing plant widely distributed across tropical and subtropical areas of Africa, Australia, South Asia and North America that is often found as a weed along roads and rivers. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Vanilla polylepis is a climbing orchid species in the plant family Orchidaceae. [1] It is native to tropical Africa, with a range spanning the width of the continent, from Kenya to Angola. [ 1 ] It grows in high-altitude evergreen and swamp forests between 1,200–1,500 m (3,900–4,900 ft) and is often found growing on trees bordering rivers ...