List of longest vines

!Species and family

!Location

!Length

!Comments

|Found throughout tropical Asia and the Pacific. This individual apparently in India.

|{{convert|4,900|ft|km}} estimate.R.E. Hawkins, editor, "Encyclopedia of Indian Natural History" (Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press, 1986) p.199{{Better source needed|reason=Source says, "Reported to attain 1.5 km in length, it is perhaps the largest climber in the world..." Need source without weasel words.|date=October 2024}}

|{{Citation needed|date=October 2024|reason=I searched Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'i by Wagner on Google Books, no mention of Entada rheedii or any of its botanical synonyms or Snuff Box Sea Bean. Entada phaseoloides and E. rheedii are not synonyms, they are separate species, and neither is native to Hawai'i, so their presence in Wagner's book is not to be expected.}}

|This specimen in Suriname.

|{{convert|1,968|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}Prof. Dr. Jens Rohwer, "Tropical Plants of the World" (New York: Sterling Pub. Co. Inc., 2002) p. 18.{{Better source needed|reason=Source says, "They have measured Bauhinia that are of more than {{convert|1,970|ft|m}} long." Need source about specific plant and one that supports inclusion in list of longest vines.|date=October 2024}}

| Ivan T. Sanderson, writing earlier, says only "several hundred yards". Sanderson believed these Suriname giants were the most massive plants on earth.Ivan T. Sanderson and David Loth, "Ivan Sanderson's Book of Great Jungles" (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965) p. 144. He saw one vine that was {{convert|2|ft|cm|spell=in}} wide while being only 3/4th inch (1.8 cm) thick.ibidpp 144 - 145. Thus the common name.

|Native to Central America. This one in Amherst, Massachusetts.

|{{convert|1,114|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} in 1984.http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1989_639928/jack-s-philodendron-grew {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}

|The longest monocot. It also weighed {{convert|250|lb|kg}}. It is unknown whether it could grow this long or this heavy in the wild.

|East Indies. This one at the Buitenzorg (now Bogor) Botanic Gardens, Java, Indonesia.

|{{convert|787|ft|m}} exactly. The longest exact measurement.Paul W. Richards, "Tropical Rain Forest" (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1952 edition) p. 102. Quoting: M. Treub in "Annales des Jardin Botanique Buitenzorg" (1883) p. 175{{cite book | last= Corner | first= Prof. E.J.H. | date= 1966 | title= The Natural History of Palms | location= Berkeley, Calif. | publisher= Univ. of Calif. Press | page= 204}}{{cite book | last= Rohwer Ph.D. | first= Dr. Jens G. |date= 2002| title= Tropical Plants of the World | location= New York | publisher= Sterling Publishing Co. Inc. |page= 18 }}

|Vines are typically up to {{convert|4|in|cm|spell=in}} thick, but can be up to five inches (13 cm) in thickness.{{ cite book |last= Henderson | first= Andrew | date= 2009 | title= Palms of Southern Asia | location= Princeton, N.J. | publisher= N.Y. Botanical Garden and Princeton Univ. Press | page= 73 }} There are unconfirmed reports of rattans up to {{convert|1,800|ft|m}} in length.Georgius Rumphius, "Herbarium Amboinensis" Part 5 P. 100. C. manan also has a ten-foot (three meter) long flagellum, or spiney grasping organ at the end of each frond.{{ cite book| last= Whitmpre | first= T. C. Ph.D. | date= 1966 |title= Guide to the Forests of the British Solomon Islands | location= London | publisher= Oxford University Press | page= 143}} These are not true tendrils since they cannot twine.

|Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.

|Exactly {{convert|599|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} to the point where it was severed.Gardener's Chronicle Vol. 76 (3rd series) (October 24, 1924) p. 228. Upper reaches could not be recovered, but the total length was certainly well in excess of {{convert|600|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}.

| Naturalist/writer Philip H. Gosse stated that he had seen a rattan (species not indicated) "no thicker than your finger" which was {{convert|1320|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} in length.{{cite book| last1= Knight | first1= A.E. | last2= Step | first2= Edward | date=c. 1908 | title= Popular Botany - The Living Plant from Seed to Fruit - Volume 1 | location= New York | publisher= Henry Holt and Co. | page= 230}}

|Found throughout Neotropics. This one in Jamaica.

|At least {{convert|450|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}.Gardener's Chronicle Vol. 15 (2nd series)(April 2, 1881) p. 430.

|Seedpods of E. gigas up to {{convert|8|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} long and divided into segments like a Beggartick as against {{convert|5|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} and undivided for E. phaseoloides. E. gigas has heart-shaped seeds while those of E. phaseoloides are round or rounded rectangular.{{cite web|url=http://waynesword.palomar.edu/plmay97.htm|title=Sea Hearts|publisher=|accessdate=21 June 2016|archive-date=5 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605080248/http://waynesword.palomar.edu/plmay97.htm|url-status=dead}} 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).Warren L. Wagner et al, "Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'i" (Honolulu: Univ. of Hawai'i and Bishop Museum co-publication, 1990) Vol.1 p. 671.

| Tropical Africa and eastward to Queensland.

| About 394 feet ( "At least 120 meters")I. C. Nielsen "Mimosaceae" FLORA MALESIANA (Leiden, Neth.: Leiden Univ. 1992) Vol 10 Part 1 p. 180.

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| Rainforests of Vietnam and Cambodia.

| This rattan is up to {{convert|330|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} in length.Gagnepain and Conrard, "Palmiers", FLORE GENERALE de l'INDOCHINE Volume 6 page 1024

| Stems are about four inches (ten centimeters) thick.

|Himalayan foothills.

|About {{convert|300|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}.Charles Pickering, "Chronological History of Plants" (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1879) p. 349 (length).

|Also up to a meter (3.25 feet) thick.Teresa Farino, "Photographic Encyc. of Wildflowers", (New York: Smithmark, 1991) p. 155.(thickness). Among the most massive of vines.

|Congo Brazzaville

|Over 330 feet ("More than 100 meters")Roy P. Mackal Ph.D., "A Living Dinosaur?", (Leiden, Neth.: E. J. Brill, 1987) pp. 289-290.

|Stem a foot thick near the base.

| Andaman Islands and Nicobar Islands south of Burma.

|{{convert|295|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}Rev. Ethelbert Blatter, "Indian Bamboos", INDIAN FORESTER Vol. 55 # 11 (November 1929) p. 602.

|One of the few vining bamboo species, and the longest bamboo culm.

| Central America and southern Mexico.

| {{convert|330|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}.{{cite book | last= Anderson | first= Edward F. | date= 2001 | title= The Cactus Family |location= Portland, Oregon | publisher= Timber Press | pages= 15–37}}

|Mountains of Java.

|Up to {{convert|250|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}."Contributions from the Osborn Botanical Laboratory"(1922) p. 288.

| Some classifications now place Embelia in the Primula Family (Primulaceae).

|Europe and the Middle East.

|{{convert|246|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}.{{cite book | editor= Craig Glenday | date= 2005 | title= Guinness Book of Records - 2006 | location= London | publisher= Guinness World Records Ltd |page= 99 |isbn= 1-904994-02-4 }}

| Vine's trunk {{convert|12|ft|5|in|m|abbr=on|sp=us}} girth. Planted 1768.

|Queensland rainforest, Australia.

|{{convert|230|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}.Stanley Breeden, "Visions of a Rainforest", (Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1992) p. 13.

|Stem up to {{convert|16|in|cm|spell=in}} thick.{{cite web|url=http://152.98.240.26/Documents/Plant/giantpeppervine.htm|title=Phylotrax|publisher=|accessdate=21 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809131803/http://152.98.240.26/Documents/Plant/giantpeppervine.htm|archive-date=9 August 2016|url-status=dead}}

|The Pacific coasts of the Americas plus New Zealand, Tasmania and, in the Atlantic, around the Falkland Islands.

|{{convert|230|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}.Tore Levring et al, "Marine Algae" (Hamburg: Cram, DeGruyter & Co., 1969) p. 186.

|Longest member of the Kelp division or phylum (Phaeophycophyta), and longest aquatic vine. This specimen also weighed {{convert|308|lb|kg}}.Levring. loc. cit.

|Tropical West Africa.

|Up to {{convert|230|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}.{{cite web|url=http://www.sarracenia.com/faq/faq5560.html|title=The Carnivorous Plant FAQ: Triphyophyllum|publisher=|accessdate=21 June 2016}}Wilhelm Barthlott, "The Curious World of Carnivorous Plants",(Portland: Timber Press, 2009) p. 92.

|This is the most massive carnivorous plant known, being thicker and woodier than Nepenthes.

|Southern Mexico, Central America, northern South America, the West Indies and Florida.

|Between 200 and 300 feet (between 61 and 91 meters).Fred J. Chittenden and Patrick M. Synge, "Royal Hort. Soc. Dictionary of Gardening",(Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1965 edit.) Vol. 4 p. 2198.Alfred B. Graf, "Tropica" (3rd edition) P. 1104 (Stated as "{{convert|100|m|ft|abbr=off|sp=us}}.

|Longest of the 18,000 (lumper estimate) to 35,000 (splitter estimate) species of orchids, and the second longest herbaceous vine. Stem is about three-quarters inch (19 mm) thick.

| Central America. This one at the Finca la Selva Reserve, Costa Rica.

|Climbing to the top of a {{convert|170|ft|m|adj=on|abbr=off|sp=us}} emergent tree; its total length probably around {{convert|200|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}.Donald R. Perry Ph.D., "The Canopy of the Rainforest", SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN (November 1984) p. 146.

|This is the longest Gymnosperm vine (division or phyllum Gymnophyta). The stem was as thick as the finder's thigh.

| Queensland rainforests.

| Up to two hundred feet (sixty meters)Telopea Volume 12 Issue 2 (2008) p. 183

| Another lianous bamboo.

|Temperate North America. This one in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, Del Norte County, California.

|{{convert|180|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mdvaden.com/grove_of_titans.shtml|title = Coast Redwoods, Redwood National Park. Facts, Photos and Redwood Hiking Trails}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.nativetreesociety.org/vines/woodyvine_table.htm|title = Woody Vine Table}}

|This is the longest root climber. This one was climbing a Coast Redwood and was {{convert|3|in|cm|spell=in}} thick.

|Sarawak and Brunei in Malaysian Borneo.

|{{convert|165|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}},"Blumea" Vol. 42 # 1 (1997) p. 41.

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| Southern Mexico.

|{{convert|165|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}.Geoffrey Herklots, "Flowering Tropical Climbers", (Folkestone, Eng.: William Dawson and Sons, Ltd., 1976) p. 172.

|Has huge funnelform flowers up to {{convert|9|in|cm|spell=in}} long and {{convert|10|in|cm|spell=in}} wide, which are golden with five radial brown stripes.

| Tropical Asia, The East Indies and Queensland

| Each clambering frond up to {{convert|165|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} in length by about {{convert|10|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} wide.K. B. Boedijn et al, PLANTS OF THE WORLD, (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1966) Vol. 3 p. 278.{{cite web| url= http://www.chennaimuseum.org/draft/gallery/05/01/botany15.htm| title= Government Museum Chennai | last= anonymous | date=n.d. | access-date= August 4, 2010}}

| 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 {{convert|330|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} in breadth.

| Endemic to Malay Peninsula.

| Up to {{convert|150|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}.{{cite book| last= Ridley | first= Henry N. FLS, FRS | date= 1967 | title= Flora of the Malay Peninsula | location= Brook North Ashford, England | publisher= L. Reeves Co. | volume= 5 | page= 276}}

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| Widespread in the Neotropics.

| Can climb to a height of {{convert|150|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}.{{cite book| last= Morton D.Sc. | first= Julia F. | date= 1987 | title= Fruits of Warm Climates | location= Wintersville, No. Carolina| publisher= Creative Resource Systems Inc. | page= 328}}

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|Widespread in the East Indies.

|{{convert|140|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}.FLORA MALESIANA Series II "Pteridophytes" Vol. 1 Part 4 pp. 256, 266-267.

|Longest fern vine (Phylum or Division Pteridophyta).

|West and Central Africa.

| Up to {{convert|131.25|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}{{ cite book| last= Fayaz| first= Ahmed | date= 2011 | title= Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants | location= Buffalo, N.Y. | publisher= Firefly Books | pages= 596–597}}

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|Pacific coast of North America. This one offshore from Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.

|A measured length of {{convert|134.5|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}William A. Setchell, "Nereocystis and Pelagophycus", BOTANICAL GAZETTE Vol. 45 # 2 (February 1908) p. 126.

|Others at Yakutat Bay, Alaska were estimated to be 165 feet (fifty meters) in length.Setchell op.cit.

|"Madeira-vine" (Anredera cordifolia) (Basellaceae).

|Northern South America.

|Up to {{convert|131|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}

|East Indies, Malay Peninsula and Queensland.

|Up to {{convert|130|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}Paul Richards "Tropical Rainforest' op. cit. p. 130http://www.ecs.com.np/archieve/feb%202005/article_1.htm{{dead link|date=December 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}

|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.{{cite web | url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/main/jhtml?xml=/gardening/2002/6/8/gorch08.xml | title=The Siren of the Species | last= anonymous | date= September 6, 2002 | access-date= April 10, 2007}}

| Endemic to North Island, New Zealand.

| Up to one hundred feet (thirty meters) in height.{{cite book | last= Thomson | first= George M. | date= 1882 | title= The Ferns and Fern Allies of New Zealand | location= Melbourne | publisher= George Robertson | pages= 96–97}}

| "Climbs to the tops of forest trees"

| South Asia

| Up to {{convert|100|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}.{{cite book | last= Rohwer Ph.D. | first= Prof. Jens G. | date= 2002 | title= Tropical Plants of the World | location= New York | publisher= Sterling Pub. Coo. |page= 184 }}

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|Southern Asia and the East Indies.

| About {{convert|100|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}, with hanging garlands up to 33 feet (ten meters) in length.{{cite book| last= Van Steenis | first= C.G.G.J. |display-authors=etal | date= 1972 | title= The Mountain Flora of Java | location= Leiden, Netherlands | publisher=E.J. Brill |page= Plate 13 caption 3}}

| The longest parasitic vine.

|Tropical dry forest of Central America, South America and the Caribbean

|Over {{convert|98|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}[https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/dolichandra_unguiscati.htm Dolichandra unguis-cati (L.) L.G.Lohmann] Weeds of Australia - Lucid Central

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|Pantropical coastal.

| Up to one hundred feet (thirty meters).{{cite book | last= Fayaz | first= Ahmed | date= 2011 | title= Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants | location= Buffalo, N.Y. | publisher= Firefly Books | page= 659 | ISBN= 978-1-55407-489-1 }}

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|China, Korea, Japan, and the Eastern United States

|Up to {{convert|98|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}[https://www.plantopedia.com/wisteria/ Wisteria Tree – How To Plant, Grow + Care – Prune Wisteria Vines] Plantopedia

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| Eastern and central North America, southeastern Canada, eastern Mexico and Guatemala.

|Up to {{convert|65|to|98|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}[https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-grow-virginia-creeper/#:~:text=Virginia%20creeper%20is%20very%20fast%20growing%20and%20can%20reach%20heights%20of%2020m. How to grow Virginia creeper] By BBC Gardeners' World Magazine Published: Thursday, 21 January 2021[https://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Parthenocissus+quinquefolia Parthenocissus quinquefolia - (L.)Planch.] Plants For A Future

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| South Asia and southeastern Asia.

|Up to {{convert|65|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}[https://www.flowerpower.com.au/thunbergia-grandiflora-177124 THUNBERGIA GRANDIFLORA] By Flower Power

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|Native from Panama to western Brazil.

|Up to {{convert|59|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}A.G.H. Alston et al, "The Genus Selaginella in Tropical South America", BULL. BRIT. MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY)- BOTANY Series Vol. 9 # 4 (December 17, 1981) p. 306. Quoting: Frederic Antoine Spring in MEM. ACAD. SCI. LETT. BELG. Vol. 24 (1850) p. 145.

|Longest member of the Clubmoss Division or Phylum (Lycophyta).

|Native from Florida in the United States south to Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean and to South America.

|More than {{convert|49|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} if climbing trees[https://weeds.brisbane.qld.gov.au/weeds/morning-glory Morning Glory - Ipomoea indica] Brisbane City Council - Weed Identification Tool

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| East Africa and South Africa.

| Up to {{convert|49|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} in length by up to {{convert|24|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us}} thick at its lower end.Hans Dieter Neuwinger, AFRICAN ETHNOBOTANY p. 240

| Longest succulent vine.

|Widespread in the New World tropics.

|Up to {{convert|36|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} high in Venezuela.W. Boting-Hemsley, "Botany Vol. 3", BIOLOGICA CENTRALI-AMERICANA (London: R.H. Porter and DuLau & Co., 1888) Vol. 55 p. 699. Up to {{convert|39|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} in the Pantanal region of Brazil.Joao Decker, "Aspectos Biologicos da Flora Brasileira" (Sao Leopoldo: Rottermund & Co., 1936) p. 538.

|Longest member of the Horsetail Division or Phylum (Siphonophyta).

|Eastern Argentina and Brazil.

|{{convert|33|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} high or more, especially when it grows rapidly into treetops.{{cite web|url=http://www.esc.nsw.gov.au/living-in/about/our-natural-environment/introduced-plants-and-animals/weeds/balloon-vine-cardiospermum-grandiflorum|title=Balloon vine (Cardiospermum grandiflorum)|publisher=Eurobodalla Shire Council|accessdate=9 May 2021|archive-date=24 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150624021720/http://www.esc.nsw.gov.au/living-in/about/our-natural-environment/introduced-plants-and-animals/weeds/balloon-vine-cardiospermum-grandiflorum|url-status=dead}}

|Tropical Africa and Asia

|Variable; can establish within tree canopy over {{convert|33|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} high.[https://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/documents/bf/weed-profile-coastal-morning-glory.pdf Coastal Morning Glory] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509090534/https://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/documents/bf/weed-profile-coastal-morning-glory.pdf |date=2021-05-09 }} City of Gold Coast - Weed Profile

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|East Indies, Melanesia and Taiwan. This one in New Guinea.

|Climbing to a height of about ten feet (three meters)Tomas Hallingback and Nick Hodgetts, "Mosses, Liverworts and Hornworts", Introduction p. 1 at http://data.iucn.org/dbtw-wpt/docs/2000-074.pdf{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (Photograph with human figure).

|If climbing at an angle of 45 degrees, actual length would be about {{convert|14|ft|2|in|m|abbr=in|sp=us}}. This is the longest member of the Moss Division or Phylum (Bryophyta), and the only true vine among mosses.