Cissampelos capensis called dawidjieswortel

Cissampelos capensis is a shrub that grows to 1,5 cm in height. Its branches often sprawl, sometimes twine. The plant has Afrikaans vernacular names of dawidjieswortel (little David’s root), dawidjies or even dawwetjies.

It is one of several plants named for a mythical root that King David had supposedly known where to dig for, surviving in an Afrikaans idiom (Waar Dawid die wortels gegrawe het), indicating knowledge of what is going on. A descriptive vernacular name also exists in Afrikaans: fynblaarklimop meaning fine-leaf creeper (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; iNaturalist; https://pza.sanbi.org).