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Climbing Lignum photos | Family: Dock (Polygonaceae) |
Scientific Name: | Muehlenbeckia adpressa | Small plant of Climbing Lignum Photo: A J Brown |
Other Common Names: | Native to coastal southern Australia. | |
Plant Description: | A prostrate low shrub, 0.4-2 m high, often found scrambling or twining over rocks, fallen timber or other plants. It has slender, reddish-brown stems to 1 m long. Leaves are oblong, ovate or semi-circular, 1.5-6 cm long and hairless, on stalks 3-20 cm long. Flowers are greenish or yellowish, small and somewhat inconspicuous with females and males on different plants. Flower-heads are 1-9 cm long, leafy and spread along the branches. Fruit is a brown to black, ellipsoid to obovoid nut with three longitudinal ribs and furrows, 2.7-3.0 mm long. | |
Habitat: | Scattered along the coastline behind beaches and on cliff-tops. |
Large scrambling plant of Climbing Lignum Photo: A J Brown | Leaves of Climbing Lignum Photo: A J Brown |
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