Adenia venenata, Modecca abyssinica

Adenia venenata is a semi-succulent, almost tree-like creeper or climber plant 1-8 m high. It produces a bottle-shaped swollen lower trunk with few to many glabrous glaucous twining branches arising from its top which ascends high into trees. The caudex can grow to 60 centimetres in diameter and two meters height.

Similar plants:

• Adenia heterophylla, Modecca heterophylla (Adenia)
• Adenia fruticosa (Adenia)
• Adenia glauca (Adenia)
• Adenia keramanthus (Adenia)
• Adenia stylosa (Adenia, Candlestick Plant)