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Help to ID this one please

21 years ago

Hi all,

Am new to this list but would love to find out what this plant is. As you can see it is a vine that virtually covers trees. I live along the Barron River in Far Nth Qld, and mostly I have just seen it along the river but that could be because of the farms all along etc.

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The leaf for this vine highlighted by the hands.

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Thanks

Judy

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Comments (3)

Frank_S
21 years ago
looks like an Ipomea species? Quite possibly a weed plant.
Wooroonooran
21 years ago
Judy, this is an excerpt from a friend of mine who has provided you with an answer!
Cheers from Kris

"Turbina corymbosa (Convolvulaceae) and yes it is a weed.
Recently photographed it again near the Curtain Fig in full bloom, and its also on the banks of the Barron at Kamerunga.
Quite spectacular in flower and as a mature liane it also develops incredibly ropy contorted stems, would be worth growing somewhere with zero potential for it to naturalize, eg middle of Saudi desert, a glasshouse in the Yukon, in the middle of a concrete
jungle with stormwater draining directly to the sea etc.
I also recently photographed at Nong Nooch BG another sp in the genus from New Caledonia with brilliant crimson flowers which seems to be a much tamer Turbina."
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scubamid
Original Author
21 years ago
Thanks for the answers. Might have to 'treat' it a little.
Cheers
Judy

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