Ripogonum scandens (Supplejack)

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Ripogonum scandens, photographed by John Barkla — fig. a John Barkla, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-16 / obs. 198053736

Ripogonum scandens, photographed by Joe Dillon — fig. b Joe Dillon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203786758

Ripogonum scandens, photographed by Mike Bowie — fig. d Mike Bowie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203077548

Ripogonum scandens, photographed by Jaco Grundling — fig. e Jaco Grundling, CC0 1.0 / obs. 192117776

Ripogonum scandens, photographed by Shaun — fig. f Shaun, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193408503

Ripogonum scandens, photographed by Kelvin Perrie — fig. g Kelvin Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195505609

Ripogonum scandens, photographed by Christopher Stephens — fig. h Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 193578629

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Flowering n = 60 observations

Flowering observations of Ripogonum scandens by month
Month	Observations
Jan	13
Feb	3
Mar	0
Apr	1
May	0
Jun	0
Jul	1
Aug	0
Sep	0
Oct	4
Nov	15
Dec	23

Peak flowering in Dec, from 60 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 2 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Ripogonum parviflorum R.Br.
Smilax ripogonum G.Forst.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.