Benjaminaceae is a perennial herbaceous vine with slightly fleshy roots. The leafy branches are slender and clustered, green as clouds. The leaves are small and scale-like. Flowers are small, white, six-merous on the leafy branches. Fruit purple-black when ripe. Fruit purple-black when ripe.

Native to South Africa, prefers warm, moist and semi-shade, not drought-resistant. Prefer loose, fertile sandy loam.

Mainly propagated by sowing, rarely by dividing. In order for it to bear seeds must be planted in the ground in the greenhouse, given sufficient water and fertilizer. By March to April, the fruit is black and purple when ripe, with the picking and sowing, can also be used fine mesh bags hanging in the greenhouse, the year sown in pots, boxes. 20 to 30 days germination.

4 ~ 5 years of plants, can also be propagated in the spring by division.

Potting soil can be used to rot the leaves of the soil or with loam: humus: sand and rotted compost = 4:5:1. ground planting 3 years can be flowering and fruit.

During the growing period, the plant should be fertilized with oil residue or soybean cake. Winter room temperature should be maintained at 10 to 15 ℃, the minimum should not be lower than 8 ℃. Appropriate shade in summer, keep below 30 ℃, maintain more than 60% humidity, often to the leaf spray, in order to tender green and beautiful.

Benzhu posture quiet elegance, beautiful plant type, like a cloud of spilling, young suitable for small potted plants, placed on the coffee table, desk and countertops. When it grows up, it can be led by wire to the window, screen and other places for climbing, but also can be freely styled and tied. It is also an important foliage material for flower baskets, bouquets, bridal bouquets, like a green waterfall cascading down. It is a famous indoor foliage plants, but also the literati often choose flowers.