Dischidia Nummularia Variegated

This plant was passed to me by a friend. Somehow I find D.nummularia seemed to be more challenging compared to other dischidias. Unfortunately this particular one did not survive in my hands. 

I think the variegated version is much more challenging compared to the green variety.

Basic Care & Maintenance of Dischidia:

Medium:
This require a fast draining medium - something like orchid medium mix.
It does well with a mixture of perlite, sphagnum moss, cocopeat & bark mix.

It should not be a strong drainage mix where it doesn't hold any moisture at all but it should not be holding water too where the roots and stem can rot too. The balance of both is ideal.

Sometimes the nursery plant them - rolling them in a coconut husk making a ball from it. Another medium will be coconut husk stuffed inside a seashell with the dischidia hanging from it.

For sometime - it would look cool but eventually it get spend and burned due to lack of root growth and nutrients - making the plant leggy and trying to escape elsewhere.

Watering:
I water daily and twice during the hot dry days. These can go without water for few days to a week and perhaps you have to take note on how the foliage appearance - if it appears withered or drying than watering is mandatory. The downside of watering will cost the leaves to turn yellow and start rotting - therefore - the right balance is necessary.

Sun:
Dischidia is not a totally shade loving plant but you can place them in bright indoors area. I for one had experience where when it is placed in dark areas - they rarely show new growth and appears to be very leggy (the leaves nodes along the stem appear to phase out far apart and it is very unsightly especially when you prefer to have a compact foliage plants)

These are trailing plant and more on the wild side. The seemed to do well in most unforgiving conditions but at times - just barely surviving and it is indeed a slow growing plant - so don't expect much if you received a small cuttings and looking forward for new growth - It may take many months to actually notice anything.

I for one, just place them in their ideal spot and consider that done there and routinely water them on daily basis and weekly spray flowering fertilizer on them hoping them to bloom. Otherwise, it's another trailing foliage plant that I'm contented with.

Other Factors:

1) Do take effort to foliar fertilizer on them to induce new growth or else it will remain in that same size for months.

2) It's a trailing plant - so do allow space for it to grow and trail heavy, it will climb and vine everywhere - so do take note on that garden space in place them permanently as once it captured and coiled within the garden space - it will be difficult to remove them without cause damage to the vine or foliage.

3) This plant does produce aerial roots and may start off new shoots hence a new plant from a different location where it had rooted. You can propagate new plants from here but do it soon or if in case it had established itself - it would be too difficult to remove them without damaging them.

Dischidia albiflora

Based on the information given in Plant Biodiversity Conservatory and Research Core, 

this Dischidia albiflora Griff. is native plant in Malaysia. 

(synonym) Dischidia borneensis Becc.

The characteristic are a such where the foliage develop imbricate leaves which hold tightly to the growing surface. The underside of the leaf has a space which is filled with roots that creates a miniature sealed dome.

Also I had found various different dischidia with the same name and so I'm really not sure which is which now. Similiar looking ones are Dischidia platyphyllla and Dischidia cornuta.

This one was particularly tricky to begin with when I first purchased it from the nursery when the roots appear to be fastened inside a cocochip medium and the cascading vine with leaves appear to be dehydrated and curled. I had quickly fasten the foliage surface which have roots on each nodes and rolled them on the kokedama surface. 

Eventually the plant picked up, the ones didn't dried up. And so - I'm think the humidity is very important for this one - lacking it may cause due stress for the plant as some of the leaves turned yellow and fall away.

Once it has established itself, new foliage formation began to appear and the whole plant appears to be healthy and rejuvenated. As I mentioned - the leaf surface must close and cover the media surface for optimum growth and success.

This is the underside of the leaf surface appearance - note the root structure.

I had also sipped in another different variety of dischidia here and somehow they are doing well together. 

Basic Care & Maintenance of Dischidia:

Medium:
This require a fast draining medium - something like orchid medium mix.
It does well with a mixture of perlite, sphagnum moss, cocopeat & bark mix.

It should not be a strong drainage mix where it doesn't hold any moisture at all but it should not be holding water too where the roots and stem can rot too. The balance of both is ideal.

Sometimes the nursery plant them - rolling them in a coconut husk making a ball from it. Another medium will be coconut husk stuffed inside a seashell with the dischidia hanging from it.

For sometime - it would look cool but eventually it get spend and burned due to lack of root growth and nutrients - making the plant leggy and trying to escape elsewhere.

Watering:
I water daily and twice during the hot dry days. These can go without water for few days to a week and perhaps you have to take note on how the foliage appearance - if it appears withered or drying than watering is mandatory. The downside of watering will cost the leaves to turn yellow and start rotting - therefore - the right balance is necessary.

Sun:
Dischidia is not a totally shade loving plant but you can place them in bright indoors area. I for one had experience where when it is placed in dark areas - they rarely show new growth and appears to be very leggy (the leaves nodes along the stem appear to phase out far apart and it is very unsightly especially when you prefer to have a compact foliage plants)

These are trailing plant and more on the wild side. The seemed to do well in most unforgiving conditions but at times - just barely surviving and it is indeed a slow growing plant - so don't expect much if you received a small cuttings and looking forward for new growth - It may take many months to actually notice anything.

I for one, just place them in their ideal spot and consider that done there and routinely water them on daily basis and weekly spray flowering fertilizer on them hoping them to bloom. Otherwise, it's another trailing foliage plant that I'm contented with.

Other Factors:

1) Do take effort to foliar fertilizer on them to induce new growth or else it will remain in that same size for months.

2) It's a trailing plant - so do allow space for it to grow and trail heavy, it will climb and vine everywhere - so do take note on that garden space in place them permanently as once it captured and coiled within the garden space - it will be difficult to remove them without cause damage to the vine or foliage.

3) This plant does produce aerial roots and may start off new shoots hence a new plant from a different location where it had rooted. You can propagate new plants from here but do it soon or if in case it had established itself - it would be too difficult to remove them without damaging them.

Dischidia Ruscifolia (Million Hearts Plant)

I often see this one sold in nurseries where it will adorned into a heart shape and sold as a decor piece. But the downside of this that the plant can get stressed so badly that all the succulent leaves start to drop within few weeks.

And so, maintaining them to have a good dehydration is very important to ensure longevity of this dischidia or else it will all dried up left with only a frame of stem like skeleton. 

This particular one does bear cute tiny white bell like flowers and may produce nectar that attracts ants.

Do take caution on the leaf ends as they can be sharp and may easily bruise the skin. Also they produce a milky latex that can irritate the sensitive skin so caution is necessary.

Just like any other dischidia, I find them doing so well wrapped up in kokedama balls and my successful experience in cultivating them.

I had also found there are different varieties available in the market. This particular variety has red coloration on the foliage - it's a pity that this one died on me. That time, I was still experimenting on them and still figuring it out how to grow and cultivate them.

Basic Care & Maintenance of Dischidia:

Medium:
This require a fast draining medium - something like orchid medium mix.
It does well with a mixture of perlite, sphagnum moss, cocopeat & bark mix.

It should not be a strong drainage mix where it doesn't hold any moisture at all but it should not be holding water too where the roots and stem can rot too. The balance of both is ideal.

Sometimes the nursery plant them - rolling them in a coconut husk making a ball from it. Another medium will be coconut husk stuffed inside a seashell with the dischidia hanging from it.

For sometime - it would look cool but eventually it get spend and burned due to lack of root growth and nutrients - making the plant leggy and trying to escape elsewhere.

Watering:
I water daily and twice during the hot dry days. These can go without water for few days to a week and perhaps you have to take note on how the foliage appearance - if it appears withered or drying than watering is mandatory. The downside of watering will cost the leaves to turn yellow and start rotting - therefore - the right balance is necessary.

Sun:
Dischidia is not a totally shade loving plant but you can place them in bright indoors area. I for one had experience where when it is placed in dark areas - they rarely show new growth and appears to be very leggy (the leaves nodes along the stem appear to phase out far apart and it is very unsightly especially when you prefer to have a compact foliage plants)

These are trailing plant and more on the wild side. The seemed to do well in most unforgiving conditions but at times - just barely surviving and it is indeed a slow growing plant - so don't expect much if you received a small cuttings and looking forward for new growth - It may take many months to actually notice anything.

I for one, just place them in their ideal spot and consider that done there and routinely water them on daily basis and weekly spray flowering fertilizer on them hoping them to bloom. Otherwise, it's another trailing foliage plant that I'm contented with.

Other Factors:

1) Do take effort to foliar fertilizer on them to induce new growth or else it will remain in that same size for months.

2) It's a trailing plant - so do allow space for it to grow and trail heavy, it will climb and vine everywhere - so do take note on that garden space in place them permanently as once it captured and coiled within the garden space - it will be difficult to remove them without cause damage to the vine or foliage.

3) This plant does produce aerial roots and may start off new shoots hence a new plant from a different location where it had rooted. You can propagate new plants from here but do it soon or if in case it had established itself - it would be too difficult to remove them without damaging them.

Dischidia Nummularia (String Of Nickels)

This particular dishidia is native in my region and easily grows on tree branches and often times appear to cascade and hang from tree branches. I often find them growing vertically on tree barks. They are not very common compared to the 

Dischidia Nummularia commonly known as String Of Nickels 

are not known to be cultivated as an ornamental plant here unless it a variegated one.

The name itself String Of Nickels is similar to what the locals call it here as duit-duit but often confused with another fern species: Dragon scale Fern (Pyrrosia piloselloides) which can be invasive and fatal to some trees.

These are collected from the nearby trees around my region for cultivation purpose but I can say it does prove difficult compared to most dischidia species.

However, just like most dischidia - the care and cultivation very much similar with hoya and other epiphyte plants.

Here, this dischidia is slipped within another dischidia variety, they can planted together as a community plant.

Basic Care & Maintenance of Dischidia:

Medium:
This require a fast draining medium - something like orchid medium mix.
It does well with a mixture of perlite, sphagnum moss, cocopeat & bark mix.

It should not be a strong drainage mix where it doesn't hold any moisture at all but it should not be holding water too where the roots and stem can rot too. The balance of both is ideal.

Sometimes the nursery plant them - rolling them in a coconut husk making a ball from it. Another medium will be coconut husk stuffed inside a seashell with the dischidia hanging from it.

For sometime - it would look cool but eventually it get spend and burned due to lack of root growth and nutrients - making the plant leggy and trying to escape elsewhere.

Watering:
I water daily and twice during the hot dry days. These can go without water for few days to a week and perhaps you have to take note on how the foliage appearance - if it appears withered or drying than watering is mandatory. The downside of watering will cost the leaves to turn yellow and start rotting - therefore - the right balance is necessary.

Sun:
Dischidia is not a totally shade loving plant but you can place them in bright indoors area. I for one had experience where when it is placed in dark areas - they rarely show new growth and appears to be very leggy (the leaves nodes along the stem appear to phase out far apart and it is very unsightly especially when you prefer to have a compact foliage plants)

These are trailing plant and more on the wild side. The seemed to do well in most unforgiving conditions but at times - just barely surviving and it is indeed a slow growing plant - so don't expect much if you received a small cuttings and looking forward for new growth - It may take many months to actually notice anything.

I for one, just place them in their ideal spot and consider that done there and routinely water them on daily basis and weekly spray flowering fertilizer on them hoping them to bloom. Otherwise, it's another trailing foliage plant that I'm contented with.

Other Factors:

1) Do take effort to foliar fertilizer on them to induce new growth or else it will remain in that same size for months.

2) It's a trailing plant - so do allow space for it to grow and trail heavy, it will climb and vine everywhere - so do take note on that garden space in place them permanently as once it captured and coiled within the garden space - it will be difficult to remove them without cause damage to the vine or foliage.

3) This plant does produce aerial roots and may start off new shoots hence a new plant from a different location where it had rooted. You can propagate new plants from here but do it soon or if in case it had established itself - it would be too difficult to remove them without damaging them.

Dischidia litoralis

Compared to so many other common dischidia - this particular one proved a challenge in finding the ID as it is confused with Dischidia bengalensis and later after some research I had found why the whole confusion had began.

Dischidia litoralis is distinct species compared from D. bengalensis.

D. litoralis has been commonly occurs on the islands of Indonesia, Irian Jaya and is common and widespread in Papua New Guinea and is newly recorded occurring in Queensland, Australia. 

The charateristics have the elliptic oval shape leaves with cylindrical stem.

It is also considered as seaside inhabitant (litoralis means of the sea shore.)

However some online nursery sellers still use the superseded name (Dischidia bengalensis)(1980) as it was a synonym which was used very much earlier before the accurate classification were made on 1989 as Dischidia litoralis.

To note: there is even a spelling difference in the name between littoralis and litoralis (extra t)

To complicate it even more, the name is somehow refers herbarium specimens to Dischidia bengalensis (2005) and not Dischidia litoralis.

Go figure..

I actually got this from a friend who got it from Phuket. I doubt this is easily available in the local nurseries - not that I had seen any sold so far and somehow I would consider this one rare.

I think it may be available on international online nurseries which I had noticed 

ID this as Dischidia sp Geri. 

The confusion continues.

I actually got this from a friend who got it from Phuket. I doubt this is easily available in the local nurseries - not that I had seen any sold so far and somehow I would consider this one rare.

It took awhile for me to get a hand on this one for few years until the kokedama helped a lot.

However - it is truly a slow growing plant.

Just like most dischidia - the care and cultivation very much similar with hoya and other epiphyte plants.

This is a new dischidia spike - this is how it would look like when it trails to seek a new location for self propagation - these vine trail and set new roots where it is favorable. They are fragile so care is required not to bruise or mishandle them as they can snap easily.

Dischidias does so well growing together with other epiphyte plants like this rhipsalis in the same pot. You can easily mix and match to create texture and foliage structure.

Basic Care & Maintenance of Dischidia:

Medium:
This require a fast draining medium - something like orchid medium mix.
It does well with a mixture of perlite, sphagnum moss, cocopeat & bark mix.

It should not be a strong drainage mix where it doesn't hold any moisture at all but it should not be holding water too where the roots and stem can rot too. The balance of both is ideal.

Sometimes the nursery plant them - rolling them in a coconut husk making a ball from it. Another medium will be coconut husk stuffed inside a seashell with the dischidia hanging from it.

For sometime - it would look cool but eventually it get spend and burned due to lack of root growth and nutrients - making the plant leggy and trying to escape elsewhere.

Watering:
I water daily and twice during the hot dry days. These can go without water for few days to a week and perhaps you have to take note on how the foliage appearance - if it appears withered or drying than watering is mandatory. The downside of watering will cost the leaves to turn yellow and start rotting - therefore - the right balance is necessary.

Sun:
Dischidia is not a totally shade loving plant but you can place them in bright indoors area. I for one had experience where when it is placed in dark areas - they rarely show new growth and appears to be very leggy (the leaves nodes along the stem appear to phase out far apart and it is very unsightly especially when you prefer to have a compact foliage plants)

These are trailing plant and more on the wild side. The seemed to do well in most unforgiving conditions but at times - just barely surviving and it is indeed a slow growing plant - so don't expect much if you received a small cuttings and looking forward for new growth - It may take many months to actually notice anything.

I for one, just place them in their ideal spot and consider that done there and routinely water them on daily basis and weekly spray flowering fertilizer on them hoping them to bloom. Otherwise, it's another trailing foliage plant that I'm contented with.

Other Factors:

1) Do take effort to foliar fertilizer on them to induce new growth or else it will remain in that same size for months.

2) It's a trailing plant - so do allow space for it to grow and trail heavy, it will climb and vine everywhere - so do take note on that garden space in place them permanently as once it captured and coiled within the garden space - it will be difficult to remove them without cause damage to the vine or foliage.

3) This plant does produce aerial roots and may start off new shoots hence a new plant from a different location where it had rooted. You can propagate new plants from here but do it soon or if in case it had established itself - it would be too difficult to remove them without damaging them.

Dischidia oiantha 'Variegata'

This one is similar to dischidia oiantha but a variegated version and more popularly sold in nurseries.

This type has white border around the foliage.

This one grows much slower than the green version. 

I noticed that it turns more green when in shade and the white variegation appears more when it is exposed to more sunlight.

If you experienced the whole plant is sort of gone thin and withered - this can be totally revived by placing the root ball submerged in water for overnight - the whole plant spring back to live within a day but do not leave it more than a day or the whole thing will succumb to rot.

This particular one had pushed all the variegation in a single stem - notice the whole thing is in white. Normally the plant is trying the ditch all the colors in this strand and focus more on the green Chlorophyll formation on other parts of the foliage - I often notice this in most variegated formed plants especially when it is not stable.

Basic Care & Maintenance of Dischidia:

Medium:
This require a fast draining medium - something like orchid medium mix.
It does well with a mixture of perlite, sphagnum moss, cocopeat & bark mix.

It should not be a strong drainage mix where it doesn't hold any moisture at all but it should not be holding water too where the roots and stem can rot too. The balance of both is ideal.

Sometimes the nursery plant them - rolling them in a coconut husk making a ball from it. Another medium will be coconut husk stuffed inside a seashell with the dischidia hanging from it.

For sometime - it would look cool but eventually it get spend and burned due to lack of root growth and nutrients - making the plant leggy and trying to escape elsewhere.

Watering:
I water daily and twice during the hot dry days. These can go without water for few days to a week and perhaps you have to take note on how the foliage appearance - if it appears withered or drying than watering is mandatory. The downside of watering will cost the leaves to turn yellow and start rotting - therefore - the right balance is necessary.

Sun:
Dischidia is not a totally shade loving plant but you can place them in bright indoors area. I for one had experience where when it is placed in dark areas - they rarely show new growth and appears to be very leggy (the leaves nodes along the stem appear to phase out far apart and it is very unsightly especially when you prefer to have a compact foliage plants)

These are trailing plant and more on the wild side. The seemed to do well in most unforgiving conditions but at times - just barely surviving and it is indeed a slow growing plant - so don't expect much if you received a small cuttings and looking forward for new growth - It may take many months to actually notice anything.

I for one, just place them in their ideal spot and consider that done there and routinely water them on daily basis and weekly spray flowering fertilizer on them hoping them to bloom. Otherwise, it's another trailing foliage plant that I'm contented with.

Other Factors:

1) Do take effort to foliar fertilizer on them to induce new growth or else it will remain in that same size for months.

2) It's a trailing plant - so do allow space for it to grow and trail heavy, it will climb and vine everywhere - so do take note on that garden space in place them permanently as once it captured and coiled within the garden space - it will be difficult to remove them without cause damage to the vine or foliage.

3) This plant does produce aerial roots and may start off new shoots hence a new plant from a different location where it had rooted. You can propagate new plants from here but do it soon or if in case it had established itself - it would be too difficult to remove them without damaging them.

Dischidia oiantha

This particular dischidia is different from the Ant plant type which has a pouch. This one has oval shaped foliage which appears to be a succulent type. Ideally sold in nurseries in the appearance where the stem rolled around a coconut husk and somehow it is very stable in that condition.

These cascade beautifully once they taken strong roots at the medium but to take caution on over-watering as the whole thing can rot away. The rot will start at the stem turning yellow and hollow and leaves falling apart.

The best ideal method of plant care and propagation I found that works best is rolling them up on a kokedama ball. This kokedama is basically a formation of cocopeat placed inside a teabag and tied up with a fishing line. Once the aerial roots grows from the leaf nodes and get embedded inside the kokedama - it is considered stable.

There are not much of study done on dischidia concerning their various species and their characteristics. However as much as this is known - this one is native and grows wildly around my region. 

I find this particular dischidia does well as a companion plant on other epiphyte especially on staghorn fern and birdnest fern - these ferns has strong fibrous root structure that support this dischidia to cling on them well.

Basic Care & Maintenance of Dischidia:

Medium:
This require a fast draining medium - something like orchid medium mix.
It does well with a mixture of perlite, sphagnum moss, cocopeat & bark mix.

It should not be a strong drainage mix where it doesn't hold any moisture at all but it should not be holding water too where the roots and stem can rot too. The balance of both is ideal.

Sometimes the nursery plant them - rolling them in a coconut husk making a ball from it. Another medium will be coconut husk stuffed inside a seashell with the dischidia hanging from it.
For sometime - it would look cool but eventually it get spend and burned due to lack of root growth and nutrients - making the plant leggy and trying to escape elsewhere.

Watering:
I water daily and twice during the hot dry days. These can go without water for few days to a week and perhaps you have to take note on how the foliage appearance - if it appears withered or drying than watering is mandatory. The downside of watering will cost the leaves to turn yellow and start rotting - therefore - the right balance is necessary.

Sun:
Dischidia is not a totally shade loving plant but you can place them in bright indoors area. I for one had experience where when it is placed in dark areas - they rarely show new growth and appears to be very leggy (the leaves nodes along the stem appear to phase out far apart and it is very unsightly especially when you prefer to have a compact foliage plants)

These are trailing plant and more on the wild side. The seemed to do well in most unforgiving conditions but at times - just barely surviving and it is indeed a slow growing plant - so don't expect much if you received a small cuttings and looking forward for new growth - It may take many months to actually notice anything.

I for one, just place them in their ideal spot and consider that done there and routinely water them on daily basis and weekly spray flowering fertilizer on them hoping them to bloom. Otherwise, it's another trailing foliage plant that I'm contented with.

Other Factors:

1) Do take effort to foliar fertilizer on them to induce new growth or else it will remain in that same size for months.

2) It's a trailing plant - so do allow space for it to grow and trail heavy, it will climb and vine everywhere - so do take note on that garden space in place them permanently as once it captured and coiled within the garden space - it will be difficult to remove them without cause damage to the vine or foliage.

3) This plant does produce aerial roots and may start off new shoots hence a new plant from a different location where it had rooted. You can propagate new plants from here but do it soon or if in case it had established itself - it would be too difficult to remove them without damaging them.

Dischidia - Introduction

Dischidia is genus where it is closely related to Hoya (it is a bigger version of waxy foliage and showy flowers) This one is much smaller and compact. Most of these dischidia rarely flower but when they do - they appear to have tiny flowers which are insignificant.

Only few types are cultivated as ornamental plants.

There are few varieties available here sold in nurseries as ornamental plants. It's rarely makes its appearance and when it does - its very much sold in flower shows and exhibitions or more notably may need to hunt for them seeking them as they are usually sold in small quantities and often taken off (sold off) and never restocked.

I'm suspecting that it is an acquired taste as I rarely find them sold in main-line nurseries. These sometimes make their comeback in some seasons but in most cases - its a rare find.

I have manage to get few here and there - some bought and some exchanged with fellow gardeners from their collection. They are indeed hardy plant but they grow ever so slowly just like the Hoya species which also give another set back that they can slowly die if not given proper care.

Some Dischidia appear to grow faster than others and often the slower ones are the variegated version. Care need to be given when the plant is accidentally injured as they produce a latex which can be harmful for sensitive skin.

These are epiphye and therefore the do get clingy on nearby support of branches or tree trunks. I for one grow them on kokedama balls and create a unique growing feature in their own world. Their stems does produce roots along the nodes to absorb nutrients and water and provide additional support for the plant around the kokedama balls.

One of my favorite cascading plants. 

Here I grow them without much care and they had heavily taken over the gate side and I had to rethink in re-arranging them to give a nicely cooler look. The invasive look doesn't give that cool look I was hoping for - nevertheless - they are without any care - except for daily watering.

The locals calls its "duit-duit" resembling coins (also equivalent to another look-a-like fern species)

These grows wildly on the trees without my care - often heavily canopy over tree trunks in an invasive manner.

Often mistaken dischidia as a parasite plant which looks almost alike another species known as Dragon scale Fern (Pyrrosia piloselloides)

One of the things about this fern is that it can totally envelop everything and choke whatever that grows on that particular tree trunk.

Again its a contention whether this fern is a parasite or not. 

Reminds me of the Strangling Fig that finds its way from the branches and invade the roots and totally choking the tree.  I wonder if this fern behaves the same.

The Care & Cultivation of Dischidia is very much similar with Hoya species

Basic Care & Maintenance of Dischidia:

Medium:
This require a fast draining medium - something like orchid medium mix. 

It does well with a mixture of perlite, sphagnum moss, cocopeat & bark mix. 

It should not be a strong drainage mix where it doesn't hold any moisture at all but it should not be holding water too where the roots and stem can rot too. The balance of both is ideal.

Sometimes the nursery plant them - rolling them in a coconut husk making a ball from it. Another medium will be coconut husk stuffed inside a seashell with the dischidia hanging from it.

For sometime - it would look cool but eventually it get spend and burned due to lack of root growth and nutrients - making the plant leggy and trying to escape elsewhere.

Watering:
I water daily and twice during the hot dry days. These can go without water for few days to a week and perhaps you have to take note on how the foliage appearance - if it appears withered or drying than watering is mandatory. The downside of watering will cost the leaves to turn yellow and start rotting - therefore - the right balance is necessary.

Sun:
Dischidia is not a totally shade loving plant but you can place them in bright indoors area. I for one had experience where when it is placed in dark areas - they rarely show new growth  and appears to be very leggy (the leaves nodes along the stem appear to phase out far apart and it is very unsightly especially when you prefer to have a compact foliage plants)

These are trailing plant and more on the wild side. The seemed to do well in most unforgiving conditions but at times - just barely surviving and it is indeed a slow growing plant - so don't expect much if you received a small cuttings and looking forward for new growth - It may take many months to actually notice anything.

I for one, just place them in their ideal spot and consider that done there and routinely water them on daily basis and weekly spray flowering fertilizer on them hoping them to bloom. Otherwise, it's another trailing foliage plant that I'm contented with.

Other Factors:

1) Do take effort to foliar fertilizer on them to induce new growth or else it will remain in that same size for months.

2) It's a trailing plant - so do allow space for it to grow and trail heavy, it will climb and vine everywhere - so do take note on that garden space in place them permanently as once it captured and coiled within the garden space - it will be difficult to remove them without cause damage to the vine or foliage.

3) This plant does produce aerial roots and may start off new shoots hence a new plant from a different location where it had rooted. You can propagate new plants from here but do it soon or if in case it had established itself - it would be too difficult to remove them without damaging them.