How to identify Elephant's Pudding
Identify Elephant's Pudding by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Rounded succulent leaves.
- Confirm leaf type: Simple (single blade).
- Confirm leaf surface: Glabrous (smooth, hairless).
- In India, compare location records such as Rajasthan, Gujarat.
- Confirm it sits within the Vitaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Elephant's Pudding.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Cissus rotundifolia
- Genus
- Cissus
- Family
- Vitaceae
- Found in India
- Rajasthan, Gujarat
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf type
- Simple (single blade)recorded
- Leaf surface
- Glabrous (smooth, hairless)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Elephant's Pudding itself; the rest are typical of the Vitaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Berry
Typical of the Vitaceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
About Elephant's Pudding
Elephant's Pudding (Cissus rotundifolia) is a species in the Vitaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Rajasthan and Gujarat.
Vitaceae
Grape family
Elephant's Pudding belongs to the Vitaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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