The males are considerably smaller than females, which can grow up to 130 cm (51 in) in total length.

In addition, males tend to have a blue coloration, whereas the females are predominantly green.

[1] It is arboreal and nocturnal, occasionally descending to the ground in search of food such as lizards, frogs, small mammals, and birds.

This sluggish pit viper is usually encountered on low shrubs during morning hours, but it mostly occupies in grasslands and rain forests.

In mornings, it is seen to stay on top of trees to obtain sun rays to heat its body.

This is not a particularly defensive species, but if agitated, it will vibrate its tail tip, form a sinuous loop with the fore body, and lash and attempt to bite, seldom with a hissing sound.

Also in some victims, polyuric renal failure and cardiac electrophysiological dysfunction occur, but fatalities have not been reported.