An epiphytic plant, it grows wild in trees, producing aerial roots that penetrate fissures and cracks in the bark. Usually found climbing on trees in warm, wet tropical low land forests at elevations from sea-level to 600 metres. Love
Acid boggy ground. Love
Sunny mountain meadows, peat moors and pine woods, on acid soils. Love
Sandy and peaty pinelands and barrens. Love
Swamps, low wet woods, pine barrens and dry uplands. Love
Moist hardwood coves, alluvial bottomlands, thickets and xeric woods northwards from sea level to 1000 metres. Love
Dry open barrens, peats and rocks. Love
Swamps and barren pine land. Love
Wet brushy thickets along the immediate coast. Love
Waste ground, hedgerows, woods etc, preferring a rich soil and avoiding acid soils. Love
Forest margins and stream banks. Love
Woodland edges and scrub. Love
Localized in patches in grassland and wooded grassland vegetation in sandy and limestone (including dolomite) soils, but not on soils developed over granite or basalt. Love
Lowland forest, secondary miombo woodland such as clearing and gaps, and open woodland. Grows in well-drained escarpments, with infertile sand or gravel soils of acidic reaction. Love
Rich deep soils, often calcareous, on the banks of streams and low rocky hillsides. Love
