Chain of Hearts

Google images says Ceropegia woodii, “String of hearts”

Wikipedia says Ceropegia woodii is a flowering plant in the dogbane family Apocynaceae , native to South Africa , Eswatini and Zimbabwe . It is sometimes treated as a subspecies of the related Ceropegia linearis , as C. linearis subsp. woodii. [1] Common names include Chain of Hearts, Collar of Hearts, String of Hearts, Rosary Vine, Hearts-on-a-String, and Sweetheart Vine

How to Propagate String of Hearts says “If you’ve had your string of hearts for a while you might have spotted some small, round and almost “potato-like” growths on the vines. Parasites? Disease? No, aerial tubers!”

Here is a tuber alongside my small vegetable knife.

Here is an aerial tuber, about 1 cm diameter. It looks very much like a potato tuber, and of course we have a vine here.

Here is my plant trimmed down, on the study window-sill.

I planted three or four leaves as I would for succulents.

And set six to eight stems in a jar of water.

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