Adenia glauca is a deciduous climber, sometimes shrubby, with a strikingly green, large, swollen stem base, referred to as a caudex, that does not exceed lengths of 1 m and has a diameter of 2 m or more. In early spring (Sep.) this caudex produces thin, twining stems at its tip, with glossy, palmate leaves (divided into 5 segments to the base), each segment obovate, dark green, becoming ...