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List of longest vines

April 11, 2024

This list of longest vines features vine species that can grow very long or vine specimens that are the longest in the world. This list is not all-inclusive in part because many species have never been measured, and also because more careful measurements are needed for many species on this list. Some species have been included because they are the largest of a habit type (such as Poison Oak as longest root climber) or as the longest member of their division or phylum (such as Equisetum giganteum).

A vine can refer to any plant with a growth habit of trailing or scandent (that is, climbing) stems or runners. The first five species are unlikely to be superseded or even to change order of rank.

World's longest vines edit

Species and family Location Length Comments
The Snuff Box Sea Bean, or Elephant Creeper (Entada phaseoloides). (Mimosaceae). Found throughout tropical Asia and the Pacific. This individual apparently in India. 4,900 feet (1.5 km) estimate.[1] This species can also be up to three feet (0.91 meters) thick[2] and is therefore also one of the most massive of vines, and for that matter of all plants.
Ribbon Vine (Bauhinia rubiginosa) (Caesalpinaceae) This specimen in Suriname. 1,968 feet (600 meters)[3] Ivan T. Sanderson, writing earlier, says only "several hundred yards". Sanderson believed these Surinam giants were the most massive plants on earth.[4]
Philodendron sp. (probably Ph. cordatum ) (Araceae). Native to Central America. This one in Amherst, Massachusetts. 1,114 feet (340 meters) in 1984.[5] The longest monocot. It also weighed 250 pounds (110 kg). It is unknown whether it could grow this long or this heavy in the wild.
Rattan Manau (Calamus manan, or Calamus ornatus (Palmae, or Arecaceae) East Indies. This one at the Buitenzorg (now Bogor) Botanic Gardens, Java, Indonesia. 787 feet (240 m) exactly. The longest exact measurement.[6][7] Vines are up to four inches (10 cm) thick. There are unconfirmed reports of rattans up to 1,800 feet (550 m) in length.[8] C. maman also has a ten-foot (three meter) long flagellum, or spiney grasping organ at the end of each frond.[9] These are not true tendrils since they cannot twine.
Rotan Simambu (Calamus scipionum) [Palmae, or Arecaceae]. Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Exactly 599 feet (183 meters) to the point where it was severed.[10] Upper reaches could not be recovered, but the total length was certainly well in excess of 600 feet (180 meters). Naturalist/writer Philip H. Gosse stated that he had seen a rattan (species not indicated) "no thicker than your finger" which was 1,320 feet (400 meters) in length.[11]
Sea Hearts, Monkey Ladder or St. Thomas Creeper (Entada gigas) (Mimosaceae). Found throughout Neotropics. This one in Jamaica. At least 450 feet (140 meters).[12] Seedpods of E. gigas up to eight feet (2.4 meters) long and divided into segments like a Beggartick as against five feet (1.5 meters) and undivided for E. phaseoloides. E. gigas has heart-shaped seeds while those of E. phaseoloides are round or rounded rectangular.[13] In spite of these differences, both species are frequently lumped as "E. scandens". The stem of this species can measure up to 3' 2" thick (three meters girth).[14]
Chinese Wisteria (Wisteria sinensis [15] ) (Papilionaceae). Native to China. This one in Sierra Madre, California. About 500 feet (about 150 meters).[16][17][18] Largest Wisteria the world. Weighs about 22 tons. Trunk about three feet (0.91 meters) thick. Another Wisteria, a W. multijuga at Ushi Jima (or Usijima) Japan was stated in 1929 to be 1,100 years of age (but now pegged at 1200 years); probably the oldest vine of any species in the world.[19][20] This wisteria is also famous for its racemes which are up to seven feet (2.1 meters) in length.[21] Another W. multijuga at Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan has a trunk five feet thick on its greater axis by about three feet on the lesser axis,[22] probably the thickest vine of any species.
Entada rheedii [Mimosaceae] Tropical Africa and eastward to Queensland. About 394 feet ( "At least 120 meters") [23] .
"May Chio" Calamus rudentum (Palmae, or Arecaceae) Rainforests of Vietnam and Cambodia. This rattan is up to 330 feet (100 meters) in length.[24] Stems are about four inches (ten centimeters) thick.
Camel's Foot Climber, or Maloo (Bauhinia vahlii) Caesalpinaceae. Himalayan foothills. About 300 feet (91 meters).[25] Also up to a meter (3.25 feet) thick.[26] Among the most massive of vines.
"Jungle Chocolate" or "Malombo" (Landolphia mannii) Apocynaceae. Congo-Brazzaville Over 330 feet ("More than 100 meters")[27] Stem a foot thick near the base.
Dinochloa andamanica (Gramineae, or Poaceae) Andaman Islands and Nicobar Islands south of Burma. 295 feet (90 meters)[28] One of the few vining bamboo species, and the longest bamboo culm.
Embelia pergamina (Myrsinaceae). Mountains of Java. Up to 250 feet (76 meters).[29] Some classifications now place Embelia in the Primula Family (Primulaceae).
"Giant Pepper Vine" (Piper novae-hollandiae) (Piperaceae). Queensland rainforest, Australia. 230 feet (70 meters).[30] Stem up to sixteen inches (41 cm) thick.[31]
"The Giant Kelp" (Macrocystis pyrifera) (Laminariaceae). The Pacific coasts of the Americas plus New Zealand, Tasmania and, in the Atlantic, around the Falkland Islands. 230 feet (70 meters).[32] Longest member of the Kelp division or phylum (Phaeophycophyta), and longest aquatic vine. This specimen also weighed 308 pounds (140 kg).[33]
Triphyophyllum peltatum (Dioncophyllaceae). Tropical West Africa. Up to 230 feet (70 meters).[34][35] This is the most massive carnivorous plant known, being thicker and woodier than Nepenthes.
Vanilla Orchid (Vanilla planifolia) (Orchidaceae). Southern Mexico, Central America, northern South America, the West Indies and Florida. Between 200 and 300 feet (between 61 and 91 meters).[36][37] Longest of the 18,000 (lumper estimate) to 35,000 (splitter estimate) species of orchids, and the longest herbaceous vine. Stem is about three-quarters inch (19 mm) thick.
"Shicsi Huaiu" (Gnetum leyboldii) [Gnetaceae]. Central America. This one at the Finca la Selva Reserve, Costa Rica. Climbing to the top of a 170-foot (52-meter) emergent tree; its total length probably around 200 feet (61 meters).[38] This is the longest Gymnosperm vine (division or phyllum Gymnophyta). The stem was as thick as the finder's thigh.
Mullerochloa moreheadiana Gramineae or Poaceae Queensland rainforests. Up to two hundred feet (sixty meters)[39] Another lianous bamboo.
"Poison Oak" (Rhus (or Toxicodendron) diversiloba radicans) (Anacardiaceae). Temperate North America. This one in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, Del Norte County, California. 180 feet (55 meters).[40][41] This is the longest root climber. This one was climbing a Coast Redwood and was three inches (7.6 cm) thick.
Nepenthes hispida (Nepenthaceae). Sarawak and Brunei in Malaysian Borneo. 165 feet (50 meters),[42]
"Copa de Oro" (Solandra maxima) (Solanaceae). Southern Mexico. 165 feet (50 meters).[43] Has huge funnelform flowers up to nine inches (23 cm) long and ten inches (25 cm) wide, which are golden with five radial brown stripes.
Tangle Fern (Gleichenia longissima) (Gleicheniaceae) Tropical Asia, The East Indies and Queensland Each clambering frond up to 165 feet (50 meters) in length by about ten feet (3.0 meters) wide.[44][45] Each scrambling branch is actually a single leaf which keeps lengthening in spurts until it reaches its physiological limits, which are not presently known. This is the widest rosette of leaves in the world; up to 330 feet (100 meters) in breadth.
Gnetum wrayii Gnetaceae Endemic to Malay Peninsula. Up to 150 feet (46 meters).[46]
Giant Granadilla (Passiflora quadrangularis) Passifloraceae. Widespread in the Neotropics. Can climb to a height of 150 feet (46 meters).[47]
Teratophyllum aculeatum (Dennstaedtiaceae) Widespread in the East Indies. 140 feet (43 meters).[48] Longest fern vine (Phylum or Division Pteridophyta).
Poison Arrow Vine (Strophanthus sarmentosus) Apocynaceae West and Central Africa. Up to 131.25 feet (40.01 meters)[49]
"Bull Kelp" (Nereocystis luetkeana) (Laminariaceae). Pacific coast of North America. This one offshore from Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. A measured length of 134.5 feet (41.0 meters)[50] Others at Yakutat Bay, Alaska were estimated to be 165 feet (fifty meters) in length.[51]
"Madeira-vine" (Anredera cordifolia) (Basellaceae). Northern South America. Up to 131 feet (40 meters)
Galeola altissima [ Orchidaceae ]. East Indies, Malay Peninsula and Queensland. Up to 130 feet (40 meters)[52][53] Tallest saprophyte and tallest monocot root climber. It is asserted that Galeola can grow as much as a yard (0.9 meters) in a day.[54]
Mange-Mange (Lygodium articulatum) Endemic to North Island, New Zealand. Up to one hundred feet (thirty meters) in height.[55] "Climbs to the tops of forest trees"
Ulan-ulan Cuscuta reflexa (Cuscutaceae). Southern Asia and the East Indies. About 100 feet (30 meters), with hanging garlands up to 33 feet (ten meters) in length.[56] The longest parasitic vine.
Dolichandra unguis-cati (Bignoniaceae). Tropical dry forest of Central America, South America and the Caribbean Over 98 feet (30 meters)[57]
Wisteria (Fabaceae). China, Korea, Japan, and the Eastern United States Up to 98 feet (30 meters)[58]
Virginia Creeper Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Vitaceae). Eastern and central North America, southeastern Canada, eastern Mexico and Guatemala. Up to 65 to 98 feet (20 to 30 meters)[59][60]
Thunbergia grandiflora (Acanthaceae). South Asia and southeastern Asia. Up to 65 feet (20 meters)[61]
Selaginella exaltata [Selaginellaceae]. Native from Panama to western Brazil. Up to 59 feet (18 meters)[62] Longest member of the Clubmoss Division or Phylum (Lycophyta).
Ipomoea indica [Convolvulaceae]. Native from Florida in the United States south to Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean and to South America. More than 49 feet (15 meters) if climbing trees[63]
Elephant Vine or Vegetable Python (Fockea multiflora) Asclepiadaceae East Africa and South Africa. Up to 49 feet (15 meters) in length by up to 24 inches (60 centimeters) thick at its lower end.[64] Longest succulent vine.
Giant Horsetail (Equisetum giganteum) [Equisetaceae]. Widespread in the New World tropics. Up to 36 feet (11 meters) high in Venezuela.[65] Up to 39 feet (12 meters) in the Pantanal region of Brazil.[66] Longest member of the Horsetail Division or Phylum (Siphonophyta).
Balloon vine (Cardiospermum grandiflorum) [Sapindaceae]. Eastern Argentina and Brazil. 33 feet (10 meters) high or more, especially when it grows rapidly into treetops.[67]
Cairo morning glory (Ipomoea cairica) [Convolvulaceae]. Tropical Africa and Asia Variable; can establish within tree canopy over 33 feet (10 meters) high.[68]
Spiridens reinwardtii (Hypnodendraceae). East Indies, Melanesia and Taiwan. This one in New Guinea. Climbing to a height of about ten feet (three meters)[69] If climbing at an angle of 45 degrees, actual length would be about 14 ft 2 in (4.32 meters). This is the longest member of the Moss Division or Phylum (Bryophyta), and the only true vine among mosses.

See also edit

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This list of longest vines features vine species that can grow very long or vine specimens that are the longest in the world This list is not all inclusive in part because many species have never been measured and also because more careful measurements are needed for many species on this list Some species have been included because they are the largest of a habit type such as Poison Oak as longest root climber or as the longest member of their division or phylum such as Equisetum giganteum A vine can refer to any plant with a growth habit of trailing or scandent that is climbing stems or runners The first five species are unlikely to be superseded or even to change order of rank World s longest vines editSpecies and family Location Length CommentsThe Snuff Box Sea Bean or Elephant Creeper Entada phaseoloides Mimosaceae Found throughout tropical Asia and the Pacific This individual apparently in India 4 900 feet 1 5 km estimate 1 This species can also be up to three feet 0 91 meters thick 2 and is therefore also one of the most massive of vines and for that matter of all plants Ribbon Vine Bauhinia rubiginosa Caesalpinaceae This specimen in Suriname 1 968 feet 600 meters 3 Ivan T Sanderson writing earlier says only several hundred yards Sanderson believed these Surinam giants were the most massive plants on earth 4 Philodendron sp probably Ph cordatum Araceae Native to Central America This one in Amherst Massachusetts 1 114 feet 340 meters in 1984 5 The longest monocot It also weighed 250 pounds 110 kg It is unknown whether it could grow this long or this heavy in the wild Rattan Manau Calamus manan or Calamus ornatus Palmae or Arecaceae East Indies This one at the Buitenzorg now Bogor Botanic Gardens Java Indonesia 787 feet 240 m exactly The longest exact measurement 6 7 Vines are up to four inches 10 cm thick There are unconfirmed reports of rattans up to 1 800 feet 550 m in length 8 C maman also has a ten foot three meter long flagellum or spiney grasping organ at the end of each frond 9 These are not true tendrils since they cannot twine Rotan Simambu Calamus scipionum Palmae or Arecaceae Sarawak Malaysian Borneo Exactly 599 feet 183 meters to the point where it was severed 10 Upper reaches could not be recovered but the total length was certainly well in excess of 600 feet 180 meters Naturalist writer Philip H Gosse stated that he had seen a rattan species not indicated no thicker than your finger which was 1 320 feet 400 meters in length 11 Sea Hearts Monkey Ladder or St Thomas Creeper Entada gigas Mimosaceae Found throughout Neotropics This one in Jamaica At least 450 feet 140 meters 12 Seedpods of E gigas up to eight feet 2 4 meters long and divided into segments like a Beggartick as against five feet 1 5 meters and undivided for E phaseoloides E gigas has heart shaped seeds while those of E phaseoloides are round or rounded rectangular 13 In spite of these differences both species are frequently lumped as E scandens The stem of this species can measure up to 3 2 thick three meters girth 14 Chinese Wisteria Wisteria sinensis 15 Papilionaceae Native to China This one in Sierra Madre California About 500 feet about 150 meters 16 17 18 Largest Wisteria the world Weighs about 22 tons Trunk about three feet 0 91 meters thick Another Wisteria a W multijuga at Ushi Jima or Usijima Japan was stated in 1929 to be 1 100 years of age but now pegged at 1200 years probably the oldest vine of any species in the world 19 20 This wisteria is also famous for its racemes which are up to seven feet 2 1 meters in length 21 Another W multijuga at Ashikaga Tochigi Prefecture Japan has a trunk five feet thick on its greater axis by about three feet on the lesser axis 22 probably the thickest vine of any species Entada rheedii Mimosaceae Tropical Africa and eastward to Queensland About 394 feet At least 120 meters 23 May Chio Calamus rudentum Palmae or Arecaceae Rainforests of Vietnam and Cambodia This rattan is up to 330 feet 100 meters in length 24 Stems are about four inches ten centimeters thick Camel s Foot Climber or Maloo Bauhinia vahlii Caesalpinaceae Himalayan foothills About 300 feet 91 meters 25 Also up to a meter 3 25 feet thick 26 Among the most massive of vines Jungle Chocolate or Malombo Landolphia mannii Apocynaceae Congo Brazzaville Over 330 feet More than 100 meters 27 Stem a foot thick near the base Dinochloa andamanica Gramineae or Poaceae Andaman Islands and Nicobar Islands south of Burma 295 feet 90 meters 28 One of the few vining bamboo species and the longest bamboo culm Embelia pergamina Myrsinaceae Mountains of Java Up to 250 feet 76 meters 29 Some classifications now place Embelia in the Primula Family Primulaceae Giant Pepper Vine Piper novae hollandiae Piperaceae Queensland rainforest Australia 230 feet 70 meters 30 Stem up to sixteen inches 41 cm thick 31 The Giant Kelp Macrocystis pyrifera Laminariaceae The Pacific coasts of the Americas plus New Zealand Tasmania and in the Atlantic around the Falkland Islands 230 feet 70 meters 32 Longest member of the Kelp division or phylum Phaeophycophyta and longest aquatic vine This specimen also weighed 308 pounds 140 kg 33 Triphyophyllum peltatum Dioncophyllaceae Tropical West Africa Up to 230 feet 70 meters 34 35 This is the most massive carnivorous plant known being thicker and woodier than Nepenthes Vanilla Orchid Vanilla planifolia Orchidaceae Southern Mexico Central America northern South America the West Indies and Florida Between 200 and 300 feet between 61 and 91 meters 36 37 Longest of the 18 000 lumper estimate to 35 000 splitter estimate species of orchids and the longest herbaceous vine Stem is about three quarters inch 19 mm thick Shicsi Huaiu Gnetum leyboldii Gnetaceae Central America This one at the Finca la Selva Reserve Costa Rica Climbing to the top of a 170 foot 52 meter emergent tree its total length probably around 200 feet 61 meters 38 This is the longest Gymnosperm vine division or phyllum Gymnophyta The stem was as thick as the finder s thigh Mullerochloa moreheadiana Gramineae or Poaceae Queensland rainforests Up to two hundred feet sixty meters 39 Another lianous bamboo Poison Oak Rhus or Toxicodendron diversiloba radicans Anacardiaceae Temperate North America This one in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park Del Norte County California 180 feet 55 meters 40 41 This is the longest root climber This one was climbing a Coast Redwood and was three inches 7 6 cm thick Nepenthes hispida Nepenthaceae Sarawak and Brunei in Malaysian Borneo 165 feet 50 meters 42 Copa de Oro Solandra maxima Solanaceae Southern Mexico 165 feet 50 meters 43 Has huge funnelform flowers up to nine inches 23 cm long and ten inches 25 cm wide which are golden with five radial brown stripes Tangle Fern Gleichenia longissima Gleicheniaceae Tropical Asia The East Indies and Queensland Each clambering frond up to 165 feet 50 meters in length by about ten feet 3 0 meters wide 44 45 Each scrambling branch is actually a single leaf which keeps lengthening in spurts until it reaches its physiological limits which are not presently known This is the widest rosette of leaves in the world up to 330 feet 100 meters in breadth Gnetum wrayii Gnetaceae Endemic to Malay Peninsula Up to 150 feet 46 meters 46 Giant Granadilla Passiflora quadrangularis Passifloraceae Widespread in the Neotropics Can climb to a height of 150 feet 46 meters 47 Teratophyllum aculeatum Dennstaedtiaceae Widespread in the East Indies 140 feet 43 meters 48 Longest fern vine Phylum or Division Pteridophyta Poison Arrow Vine Strophanthus sarmentosus Apocynaceae West and Central Africa Up to 131 25 feet 40 01 meters 49 Bull Kelp Nereocystis luetkeana Laminariaceae Pacific coast of North America This one offshore from Carmel by the Sea California A measured length of 134 5 feet 41 0 meters 50 Others at Yakutat Bay Alaska were estimated to be 165 feet fifty meters in length 51 Madeira vine Anredera cordifolia Basellaceae Northern South America Up to 131 feet 40 meters Galeola altissima Orchidaceae East Indies Malay Peninsula and Queensland Up to 130 feet 40 meters 52 53 Tallest saprophyte and tallest monocot root climber It is asserted that Galeola can grow as much as a yard 0 9 meters in a day 54 Mange Mange Lygodium articulatum Endemic to North Island New Zealand Up to one hundred feet thirty meters in height 55 Climbs to the tops of forest trees Ulan ulan Cuscuta reflexa Cuscutaceae Southern Asia and the East Indies About 100 feet 30 meters with hanging garlands up to 33 feet ten meters in length 56 The longest parasitic vine Dolichandra unguis cati Bignoniaceae Tropical dry forest of Central America South America and the Caribbean Over 98 feet 30 meters 57 Wisteria Fabaceae China Korea Japan and the Eastern United States Up to 98 feet 30 meters 58 Virginia Creeper Parthenocissus quinquefolia Vitaceae Eastern and central North America southeastern Canada eastern Mexico and Guatemala Up to 65 to 98 feet 20 to 30 meters 59 60 Thunbergia grandiflora Acanthaceae South Asia and southeastern Asia Up to 65 feet 20 meters 61 Selaginella exaltata Selaginellaceae Native from Panama to western Brazil Up to 59 feet 18 meters 62 Longest member of the Clubmoss Division or Phylum Lycophyta Ipomoea indica Convolvulaceae Native from Florida in the United States south to Mexico Central America and the Caribbean and to South America More than 49 feet 15 meters if climbing trees 63 Elephant Vine or Vegetable Python Fockea multiflora Asclepiadaceae East Africa and South Africa Up to 49 feet 15 meters in length by up to 24 inches 60 centimeters thick at its lower end 64 Longest succulent vine Giant Horsetail Equisetum giganteum Equisetaceae Widespread in the New World tropics Up to 36 feet 11 meters high in Venezuela 65 Up to 39 feet 12 meters in the Pantanal region of Brazil 66 Longest member of the Horsetail Division or Phylum Siphonophyta Balloon vine Cardiospermum grandiflorum Sapindaceae Eastern Argentina and 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